Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Bleeding Ponytail: An elderly sold out baby boomer who pines for hippie or pre-sellout days.
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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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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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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 find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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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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People will always choose more money over more sex.
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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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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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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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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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The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
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'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'
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I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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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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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
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My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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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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With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.