Quotes By Doug Coupland

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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