Quotes By Doug Coupland

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

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

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.

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.

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

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.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Technology favors horrible people.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

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.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.