Douglas Coupland

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Purchased experiences don't count.

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

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

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