Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
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By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.
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If you’re an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time’s passing go slower or faster than it does for me?
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You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.
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I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.
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The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
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It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
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Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
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I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.
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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Bleeding Ponytail: An elderly sold out baby boomer who pines for hippie or pre-sellout days.
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People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.
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Decade Blending: In clothing: the indiscriminate combination of two or more items from various decades to create a personal mood: Sheila = Mary Quant earrings (1960s) + cork wedgie platform shoes (1970s) + black leather jacket (1950s and 1980s).