Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
Doug Coupland

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Doug Coupland

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Doug Coupland

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Doug Coupland

People will always choose more money over more sex.
Doug Coupland

Purchased experiences don't count.
Doug Coupland

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
Doug Coupland

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
Doug Coupland

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Doug Coupland

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
Doug Coupland

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
Doug Coupland

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Doug Coupland

Star Trek characters never go shopping.
Doug Coupland

Technology favors horrible people.
Doug Coupland

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
Doug Coupland

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Doug Coupland

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Doug Coupland

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Doug Coupland

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
Doug Coupland

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
Doug Coupland