Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
Doug Coupland

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
Doug Coupland

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Doug Coupland

Fate is for losers.
Doug Coupland

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
Doug Coupland

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
Doug Coupland

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.
Doug Coupland

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
Doug Coupland

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
Doug Coupland

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Doug Coupland

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

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
Doug Coupland

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.
Doug Coupland

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
Doug Coupland

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Doug Coupland

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Doug Coupland

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
Doug Coupland

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
Doug Coupland

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.
Doug Coupland

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
Doug Coupland