A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment youre past it. – Doug Coupland
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and its been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. – Doug Coupland
If human beings had genuine courage, theyd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. – Doug Coupland
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. – Doug Coupland
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair