Quotes By Doug Coupland

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.