“ Ask questions, no, screech questions out loud - while kneeling in front of the electric doors at Safeway, demanding other citizens ask questions along with you - while chewing up old textbooks and spi… Douglas Coupland
“ As brothers and sister we knew instinctively that if we were going to stand in darkness, best we stand in a darkness we had made ourselves. Douglas Coupland
“ Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personall… Douglas Coupland
“ And so the point of this story is that when I first met you at the photocopy machine, sure, we talked like a telethon and everything, but the perfume you were wearing then—that perfume was the smell o… Douglas Coupland
“ And in his heart, I think, he’s now learned what I’ve come to believe, which is, as I’ve said all along, that the sun may burn brightly and the faces of children may be achingly sweet, but in the air… Douglas Coupland
“ And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in… Douglas Coupland
“ And if you were such a good clairvoyant, why didn't you just write things straight out? What's with all the stupid rhyming quatrains? Thanks for nothing. Douglas Coupland
“ All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next. Douglas Coupland
“ A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money. Douglas Coupland
“ A feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. Douglas Coupland
“ Представь, что ты клонируешь себя и каждый раз передаёшь инструкцию что нужно и не нужно делать. Наверное, так мы и будем эволюционировать в будущем. Douglas Coupland
“ Начнем с того, что, на мой взгляд, только люди могут отделить сон от грез наяву. Будь ты львенком, медузой или папоротником — ты не отличишь бодрствование от сна. Мне кажется, что еще несколько тысяч… Douglas Coupland
“ The BIG issue nowadays is that on TV and in magazines, the images we see, while they appear surreal, really aren’t surrealistic, because they’re just random, and there’s no subconsciousness underneath… Douglas Coupland
“ [...] it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all i… Douglas Coupland
“ You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself. Douglas Coupland
“ You see … I know nuclear warheads have a bum rap in our culture—radiation, nuclear winter, massive extinction, sad little doll heads lying in the gutter covered with bits of black muck. But to watch o… Douglas Coupland
“ You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. Douglas Coupland
“ You know, from what I've seen, at twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional. And by thirty, a darkness starts movi… Douglas Coupland
“ You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend… Douglas Coupland
