802 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.

The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect.

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon - lung-burning; mentholated and pure

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.