Douglas Coupland Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”

“I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.”

“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.”

“Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.”

“When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.”

“I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.”

“Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.”

“A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.”

“I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.”

“You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.”