Douglas Coupland Quotes

"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it."

"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."

"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog"

"Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison."

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

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

"Tell me you feel this fire"

"We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude."

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

"Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are"

"I think the killers get far too much attention."

"Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are."

"You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos"