“Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of i...” — Douglas Coupland Quote

“Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'”

“Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.”

“High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.”

“Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.”

“I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.”

“It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.”