The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people… — 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
I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked… — 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
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were… — 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
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
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
In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in… — 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
Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you’d be amazed at… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound… — 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