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Danh ngôn của Douglas Coupland (Sứ mệnh: 3)

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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.
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
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.
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.