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" Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.' "

" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "

" If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea? "

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

" By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else. "

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" What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? "

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" The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. "

" If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? "

" Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website. "

" I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. "

" I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right? "

" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "

" As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity. "

" Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows. "

" My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's. "

" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "

" I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant. "

" It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. "

" If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. "

" Christmas makes everything twice as sad. "

" Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? "

" Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time. "

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" Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. "

" Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. "

" If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. "

" The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly. "