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
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
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 people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only… — 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
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written… — 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
It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know. — 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
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
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I… — 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
