Quotes By Doug Coupland

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

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.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Purchased experiences don't count.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

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.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

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.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.