Douglas Coupland Quotes - Page 10

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

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

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

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, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Wilcox Fate is for losers.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.