Douglas Coupland Quotes
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At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
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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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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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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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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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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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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
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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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'You're never too old to dance, Dad...and you're never too old to dream.''That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?'
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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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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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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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Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.
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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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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.
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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.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
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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.