People Quotes by Chuck Klosterman

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

— Chuck Klosterman

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

— Chuck Klosterman

Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.

— Chuck Klosterman

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

— Chuck Klosterman

This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

— Chuck Klosterman

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it…

— Chuck Klosterman

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought…

— Chuck Klosterman

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not…

— Chuck Klosterman

It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the…

— Chuck Klosterman

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who…

— Chuck Klosterman

We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for…

— Chuck Klosterman

Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that…

— Chuck Klosterman

What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who…

— Chuck Klosterman

A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the…

— Chuck Klosterman

Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against…

— Chuck Klosterman

Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's…

— Chuck Klosterman

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and…

— Chuck Klosterman

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books…

— Chuck Klosterman

The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated,…

— Chuck Klosterman

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not…

— Chuck Klosterman

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a…

— Chuck Klosterman

It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This…

— Chuck Klosterman

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to…

— Chuck Klosterman

Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can…

— Chuck Klosterman

Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that…

— Chuck Klosterman

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of…

— Chuck Klosterman

In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do…

— Chuck Klosterman

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were,…

— Chuck Klosterman

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen…

— Chuck Klosterman

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This…

— Chuck Klosterman

It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have…

— Chuck Klosterman

I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to…

— Chuck Klosterman

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

— Chuck Klosterman

I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice,…

— Chuck Klosterman

The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people…

— Chuck Klosterman

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually…

— Chuck Klosterman