Douglas Coupland’s first novel Generation X (1991) named a generation. He never stopped being quotable.
“If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal.”
“I don’t want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.”
“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”
“Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.”
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
“Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.”
“Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.”
“We’re rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.”
“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”
“Fondue sets, martini shakers, and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.”
“The only activities that humans do that have no animal equivalent are smoking, body-building and writing.”
“In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.”
“Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.”
“Forget sex or politics of religion. Loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”
“Canadians can easily ‘pass for American’ as long as we don’t accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.”
The IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premiere at Expo 67.