My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I connect fashion to other peoples’ elegance, but not my own. I don’t think I’ve ever felt elegant. I’ve felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant – I prefer it – but I can’t do it myself. I honestly think it’s some form of autistic disorder. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it’s not… it’s just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that’s the nature of the language of fashion. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn’t work, and sometimes it works great. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C’s and D’s. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. Douglas Coupland Read Quote