All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
Douglas CouplandOn TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
Douglas CouplandIf a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
Douglas CouplandMost of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
Douglas CouplandWhen you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.
Douglas CouplandI sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.
Douglas Coupland