802 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer.

I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents.

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

I’ve always been interested in the unintended side effects of technology. For instance, when the car was invented, who would have thought dogs would like sticking their heads out the window to enjoy the scentscape generated by speed and wind?

Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world – children, families, friends.

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you’re in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.