Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.