Quotes by Doug Coupland

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

People will always choose more money over more sex.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

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.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.