Douglas Coupland Quotes
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The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, the two of you have become the same mist and you realize you can never return to being just a lone cloud again, because the isolation would be intolerable.
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I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
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Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
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If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
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Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
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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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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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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
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There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still exist?' 'It really is,' said Bev. (p. 222)
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
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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.
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
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People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber.
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When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.
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The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.
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A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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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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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
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Language is such a technology.