Douglas Coupland Quotes
Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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.
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
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.
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
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.
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
