It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
— Douglas Coupland
You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
People will always choose more money over more sex.
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Purchased experiences don't count.
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
Every single moment is a coincidence.
A ring is a halo on your finger.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
I've got 911 on speed dial.
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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.
There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Technology favors horrible people.
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
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.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
