Doug Coupland

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place f…

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Technology favors horrible people.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

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

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

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 m…

People will always choose more money over more sex.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

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 m…

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.