Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
Douglas CouplandMaybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
Douglas CouplandLife is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we donโt know why, and if we do find out why, itโs decades later and knowing why doesnโt matter any more.
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 CouplandIt'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.
Douglas CouplandAll families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
Douglas CouplandTime, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.
Douglas Coupland