“ And when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them Will you take my heart-- stains and all? and they say I will, and they ask you the same question and you say, I… Douglas Coupland
“ Здесь у всех такой вид, словно они принимают участие в программе защиты и перемещения свидетелей. Douglas Coupland
“ You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have… Douglas Coupland
“ Which is that there's too much weight improperly distributed: towers and elevators; steel, stone and cement. So much mass up so high that gravity itself could end up being warped Douglas Coupland
“ When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; t… Douglas Coupland
“ What I notice is that everybody's kind of accusing everybody else of actingthese days. Know what I mean? Kind of, uh, not being genuine. Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel… Douglas Coupland
“ This place is like some cosmic dream crusher. All you can get out of a place like this is a creepy little tingle that lets you know your kid is never going to be anything more than a customer-that the… Douglas Coupland
“ It hit him that his own form of loneliness was a luxury, one as chosen and as paid for as three weeks in Kenya's velds or a cherry red Ferrari. Real loneliness wasn't something an assistant scoped out… Douglas Coupland
“ Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard, Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like… Douglas Coupland
“ I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I have never learned to do, and all I remember is falling. Douglas Coupland
“ I then return to my seat and something happens to me-- something inside me is exhausted and worn and stops spinning and I break down and cry.I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle a… Douglas Coupland
“ His lack of story seemed to be of the which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg variety. For example, he thought that if he learned how to hang-glide, then maybe his life’s story could begin there—an ad… Douglas Coupland
“ Es tarde. Hay baloncesto en la tele; revistas de ordenador y fitness por todas partes. Quiero hablar del amor.¿Se acuerda alguien de esa vieja serie El superagente 86? ¿Del principio, cuando Maxwell S… Douglas Coupland
“ And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by th… Douglas Coupland
“ After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What'… Douglas Coupland
“ After playing Halo 2 for 3 hours, I went out and mowed down a Red Cross blood bank, raped anything with a pulse, and trashed the local mall. Then I toasted the gods of destruction with a goblet of blo… Douglas Coupland
“ Жизнь одинокого человека связана с ритуалом изгнания вакуума из вечеров, проведенных в одиночестве. Douglas Coupland
“ It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. Ichose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me. Douglas Coupland
“ Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more. Douglas Coupland