Douglas Coupland Quotes

Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blithely handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.

Shopping is Not Creating.

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they’re still getting real food.

Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.