Quotes by Doug Coupland

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

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

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

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