Douglas Coupland Want Quotations

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.