Douglas Coupland Quotes

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

I'm not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.

I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.