Douglas Coupland

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

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.

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.