Douglas Coupland

"The future is just really unknowable and we're all lying to ourselves if we think we can predict it."

"We live inside the internet now."

"The most important thing is finding what you love."

"You can never recover the time you lose on someone."

"A friend is something that I have until I don't."

"I think the future is going to be radically different."

"Never make a person your only reason for living."

"You have to embrace life and its challenges."

"Money is freedom and time is money."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"There's nothing better than having your family around you."

"I want my pain to be transformed into something useful."

"Death is the only thing you can be sure about."

"Great people are never more than one degree of separation away from the common world."

"We are the sons and daughters of history."

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."

"I think it's important to be kind."

"You are the product of your thoughts."

"We are all leading secret lives."

"The world is increasingly becoming a place where you have to be very specialized."

"Everyone is doing the best they can with the tools they've been given."

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire."

"Anybody who is able to work hard and show up will succeed."

"I believe in making the best of what you have."

"The most important skill is being able to listen."

"Life is only meaningful if you find meaning in it."

"I think the key is to keep moving forward."

"You have to be willing to take chances to get anywhere."

"Everything is made up of stories."

"Patience is the most underrated virtue."