Douglas Coupland Want Quotations

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

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

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.