Douglas Coupland Real Quotations

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.

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

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.