Douglas Coupland Quotes

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -- sproing!—with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.

You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.

Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.

You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.

You still don't know what you do well.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.

You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.

Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.

I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to you with hope and peace and much much love. Take all you need and take it quickly.

I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.

I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

We call Jasmine's room 'The Harem,' a sexy place, about which Dan never complained, even though his own possessions, his laptop PC and briefcase, for example, looked crazy in the environment, invasive and overcomplex, like Stealth bombers in SmurfWorld.