Douglas Coupland Quotes (6 Quotes)

The ideal is that someone comes in here and they can't make a direct attribution to any one person. They can't say, 'That's a Doug thing', or 'That's a Graham thing'. In a weird way, if that happens we've failed.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

After many decades of cultural saturation, kits themselves have begun to feed themselves back into the constructed world -- to the point where it's hard to tell where their influence begins and ends.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

Everyone has a gripping stranger in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it's the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing white shoulders who stamps your book at the library - a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying, Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida, you'd follow them.

We went from being boring little Canada to a sexy country of sin overnight We are not used to being trendy or hip.