Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost… — 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
Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely'… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 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
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
