Douglas Coupland

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

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

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.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

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

Fate is for losers.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

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

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.