Quotes from Douglas Coupland

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

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

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

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.

I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.

The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'

Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them Will you take my heart-- stains and all? and they say I will, and they ask you the same question and you say, I will, too.

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.

I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.