Douglas Coupland Quotes
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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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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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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'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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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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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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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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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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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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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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Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.
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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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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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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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I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
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You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.
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Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.
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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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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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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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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.