“ Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster. Douglas Coupland
“ Maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the… Douglas Coupland
“ Leslie entered the lounge like a taller, studlier version of the Kentucky Fried Chicken colonel. Douglas Coupland
“ It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other peop… Douglas Coupland
“ I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. Douglas Coupland
“ I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight,… Douglas Coupland
“ Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair. Douglas Coupland
“ Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. Douglas Coupland
“ All systems have failed me. In fiveminutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Douglas Coupland
“ I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time. Douglas Coupland
“ And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality. Douglas Coupland
“ When hit with a genius idea, people tend to say, Well, if I sat down in a chair and really thought about it, I could have had that genius idea, too. But they didn't--and even if they'd wanted to, it c… Douglas Coupland
“ Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean li… Douglas Coupland
“ So I got to thinking that perhaps that’s what money is: a crystallization—or, rather, a homogenization—of time and free will into those things we call dollars and pounds and yen and euros. Money multi… Douglas Coupland
“ Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sinc… Douglas Coupland
“ Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the ly… Douglas Coupland
“ Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsingat bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows Douglas Coupland
