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" Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing. "

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" Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else. "

Douglas Coupland

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" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. "

" I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living. "

" In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. "

" Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. "

" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "

" If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. "

" Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. "

" Where does personality end and brain damage begin? "

" 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. "

" Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. "

" I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags. "

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

" For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves. "

" 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 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. "

" When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging? "

" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "

" Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. "

" People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. "

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

" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "

Douglas Coupland

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" I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger. "

" The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way. "

" 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. "

" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

" It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did. "

" There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. "

" In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there. "

" We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. "