Douglas Coupland

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.