Quotes By Doug Coupland

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

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.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.