802 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

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.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

I’m an adult. Discipline me and I’ll bury you alive. – Roger.

I don’t think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

It’s just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward?

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don’t put it in a list. Don’t even say the words.

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There’s no point in having them.

Sometimes I think God is like weather – you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.