Quotes by Doug Coupland

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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