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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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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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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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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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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Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures... And I think back over my life and I realize that my own nature -the core me- essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel the same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
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Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.
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'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'
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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
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People will always choose more money over more sex.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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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).
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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
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Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'
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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’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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Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.
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Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.
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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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Fate is for losers.
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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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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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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.