I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously… — 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 really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought… — 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
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not… — 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
People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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 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