Douglas Coupland

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing. ”

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. ”

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. ”

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. ”

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. ”

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. ”

I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots. ”

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is. ”

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

Nobody likes being told who or what they are. ”