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.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.