Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. – Douglas Coupland
With ‘Worst. Person. Ever.’ I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He’s like the coyote in the ‘Road Runner’ cartoons. – Douglas Coupland
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. – Douglas Coupland
Being asked what animal you’d like to be is a trick question; you’re already an animal. – Douglas Coupland
It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. – Douglas Coupland
I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn’t help anything. We can only go forward. – Douglas Coupland
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. – Douglas Coupland
The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. – Douglas Coupland
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. – Douglas Coupland
When you write, it’s just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with – though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It’s the poetry part of you. – Douglas Coupland
I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. – Douglas Coupland
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement. – Douglas Coupland
It’s weird when people start sentences with ‘frankly’ – as if their other sentences don’t count. – Douglas Coupland
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that’s not even art, but something universal and bigger. – Douglas Coupland
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn’t feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. – Douglas Coupland
I’ve become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags. – Douglas Coupland
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. – Douglas Coupland
Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let’s meet in person. – Douglas Coupland
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure. – Douglas Coupland
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It’s like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat. – Douglas Coupland
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. – Douglas Coupland
