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" If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it. "

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Baby

Against

" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.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

" I've got 911 on speed dial. "

" We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation. "

" 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.' "

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

" I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "

" Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. "

" I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. "

" I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road. "

Douglas Coupland

Time

Road

" Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again. "

" Star Trek characters never go shopping. "

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

" Fate is for losers. "

Douglas Coupland

Losers

Fate

" Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion. "

" Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. "

" I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. "

" I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? "

Douglas Coupland

Society

Forever

" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "

" Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. "

" 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

Want

Patient

" I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. "

" 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. "

" I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do. "

" Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. "

" I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. "

Douglas Coupland

Time

Reward

" Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves. "

" 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. "

" We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. "

" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "