If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person?… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
“I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog."… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
“Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy"… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share
![“I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer…” quote by Chuck Klosterman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ab9/chuck-klosterman-804_cancer_i-think-one-possibility-in-the-future-mi_1763962.jpg)
