When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, theyre going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and theyre going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. – Doug Coupland
Everybody has basically the same family, its just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. – Doug Coupland
Its very strange that most people dont care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. – Doug Coupland
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other peoples families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. – Doug Coupland
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it. – Maggie Stiefvater