802 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

I’ve given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

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.

TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it’s about your voice. And finally the report, what you’re actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I’ve realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

We’re all born lost, aren’t we? We’re all born separated from God – over and over life makes sure to inform us of this – and yet we’re all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.

And for a while they were happy in their own manner; they had the animal confidence money affords.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story – something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

Is that all time is – our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.