Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Douglas CouplandTV 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.
Douglas CouplandI 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.
Douglas CouplandCompromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
Douglas CouplandRemember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Douglas CouplandI think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.
Douglas Coupland