Quotes by Doug Coupland

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.

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.

People will always choose more money over more sex.

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

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

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

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn’t arrive.

If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.