Quotes By Doug Coupland

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

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.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

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.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

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.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.