Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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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Technology favors horrible people.
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.
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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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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
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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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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.
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I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
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I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
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I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.
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Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
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If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
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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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If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.