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. – Doug Coupland
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. – Doug Coupland
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. – Doug Coupland
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. – Doug Coupland
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. – Doug Coupland
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. – Doug Coupland
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. – Doug Coupland
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. – Doug Coupland
