Douglas Coupland

“It's all so random.”

“Every day, thousands of confessions are kept quiet; secrets mandated by privacy laws, professional codes, and personal ethics.”

“The suburbs are the FUTURE.”

“Hand-writing is a civilizing tool.”

“Some people can’t be governed, that’s all. It’s in their nature.”

“And then I realized that my life was a story.”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“You are the first generation raised without religion.”

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.”

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

“A 'McJob' is a low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector. It's a job that sucks.”

“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”

“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”

“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”

“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly.”

“We are all of us, in this world, more or less like incubation eggs.”

“There is no real going back. There is only going forward.”