Douglas Coupland Quotes & Sayings

“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”

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

“Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.”

“Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.”

“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.”

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

“Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.”

“Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.”

“You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.”

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