“ With Jason I thought I'd finally played my cards right, and now I'm just one more of thosebroken, sad people out there, figuring out a year in advance where they can have Easter andChristmas dinner wi… Douglas Coupland
“ Why is it Americans are socially permitted to say 'fricking' when in fact everyone knows the word they're actually saying is 'fucking'?…here you have some bland ho-bag telly presenter saying 'I'm so f… Douglas Coupland
“ We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We mus… Douglas Coupland
“ Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages.But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have t… Douglas Coupland
“ The store is also lit to the point of painfulness by a ceiling loaded with more fluorescent bulbs than a landing mothership. Shielding my headachey eyes, I make my consumer choices, then head to the c… Douglas Coupland
“ The one appalling thing about electric cars is that one plugs them into already overtaxed municipal power grids. Try mentioning this to a politician or manufacturer who wants to ride the green wave an… Douglas Coupland
“ The Fry’s chain completely taps into MSE: Male Shopping Energy. This is to say that most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they’re gone for the day—if n… Douglas Coupland
“ Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, i… Douglas Coupland
“ Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now. Douglas Coupland
“ Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky? Douglas Coupland
“ Once you’ve used your brain flat-out, you can’t go into the SLOW mode. You can’t drive an Infinite J-3B and then get downgraded to an Daewoo. Brains don’t workd that way. Douglas Coupland
“ Now: I am an affectionate man but I have much trouble showing it.When I was younger I used to worry so much about being alone - of being unlovable or incapable of love. As the years went on, my worrie… Douglas Coupland
“ Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world--children, families, friends. Douglas Coupland
“ Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing. We wake up in the morning, we cast our nets into the water, an, if we are lucky, at day's end we will have netted one-- maybe two-- small fish. Occasionally we wil… Douglas Coupland
“ Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. Douglas Coupland
“ Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies’ afternoon tea. Douglas Coupland
“ Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other… Douglas Coupland
“ It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do? Douglas Coupland
