Quotes By Doug Coupland

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.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Fate is for losers.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

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.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

I've got 911 on speed dial.