Douglas Coupland Quotations

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

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

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do something with you, I will hate you and resent you and figure out a way of never having to work with you ever again.