Douglas Coupland

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

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

I've got 911 on speed dial.

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

In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.