Quotes from Douglas Coupland

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

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

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

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

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

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

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

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

Besides, animals don't even have time. Only humans have time. It's what makes us different.

Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

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