Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland OC OBCis a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 December 1961
CountryCanada
In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.