Douglas Coupland Quotes

Crises test us. We either fall apart or we grow up fast. Finding new reserves of strength and capacity that we never knew we had. The shocking events that fill us with dread today can transform us, and they can transform the world for the better. But first we need to picture the world that we're fighting for. And we have to dream it up together. Right now, every alarm in our house is going off simultaneously. It's time to listen. It's time to leap.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

There's so much power in seeing the possibility of change.

It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.