“People will always choose more money over more sex”
Source: JPod
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Famous Douglas Coupland Quotes
“The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.”
Source: Hey Nostradamus!
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.”
Source: JPod
“You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.”
Source: Player One
Source: Shampoo Planet
“Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.”
“Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?”
“Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.”
“How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?”
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.”
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.”
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“Time erases both the best and the worst of us.”
Source: All Families are Psychotic
“Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.”
Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel
“Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.”
Source: JPod
Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel
Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel
“We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.”
Source: Microserfs: A Novel
“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.”
“Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.”
Source: JPod
“Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.”
Source: All Families are Psychotic
“Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.”
“When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.”
Source: Hey Nostradamus!
“Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.”
“Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.”
Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel
“Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?”
Source: JPod
“Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.”