Quotes from Doug Coupland

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

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

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

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

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

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.