Douglas Coupland Way Quotations

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.