Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland OC OBCis a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 December 1961
CountryCanada
I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
Time erases both the best and the worst of us.
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
People will always choose more money over more sex
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.