Douglas Coupland Scary Quotations

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.

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