Quotes By Doug Coupland

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

People will always choose more money over more sex.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.