Life 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 CouplandYou pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas CouplandThe modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
Douglas CouplandTofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
Douglas CouplandLife always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Douglas CouplandIf you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.
Douglas Coupland