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
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
Keep your treasure to yourself.
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.