It’s the hipsters,” David said. “It’s retro. They need a…

“He turned and snarled at me, eyes blazing. “Eep!” I said, because even though it was scary, it was still a scary unicorn ,…

— T.J. Klune

“You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that…

— Chuck Klosterman

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but…

— Colson Whitehead

“Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music, or clothes, or owning clever or obscure possessions, is the way middle-class people fight one another for…

— David McRaney

“The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?”

— Ayn Rand

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for all things…

— Steven Crowder

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.

— Jeph Jacques

If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too…

— Ike Barinholtz

“Hipsters are fine with coffee but eye boutiques and banks with suspicion, yuppies are fine with the boutiques and banks but see landscapes radically…

— Peter Moskowitz

We've had distressed edges. We've had culottes. We've had high waisted jeans, we've seen the heralding of the new bootcut back again. I'm so…

— Alexa Chung

“[On hipsters:] Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care.”

— Dan Fletcher

Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most…

— Steven Crowder

My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and…

— James Ellroy

“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.”

— John Kennedy Toole

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac