Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
Douglas CouplandFailure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Douglas CouplandI want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.
Douglas CouplandMy mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self.
Douglas Coupland