Quote

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Douglas Coupland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Writer
Douglas Campbell Coupland
Park
Parks
Theme
York
People

More quotes by Douglas Coupland

Image
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.
Douglas Coupland
Image
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
Douglas Coupland
Image
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
Douglas Coupland
Image
So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
Douglas Coupland
Image
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
Douglas Coupland
Image
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
Douglas Coupland
Image
In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
Douglas Coupland
Image
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
Douglas Coupland
Image
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
Douglas Coupland
Image
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
Douglas Coupland
Image
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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.
Douglas Coupland
Image
When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
Douglas Coupland
Image
I think the killers get far too much attention.
Douglas Coupland
Image
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
Douglas Coupland
Image
I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
Douglas Coupland