Thinking Quotes by Chuck Klosterman

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

— Chuck Klosterman

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

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

— Chuck Klosterman

I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.

— Chuck Klosterman

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were,…

— Chuck Klosterman

My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

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

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

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow.…

— Chuck Klosterman

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books…

— Chuck Klosterman

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces…

— Chuck Klosterman

I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked…

— Chuck Klosterman

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For…

— Chuck Klosterman

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a…

— Chuck Klosterman

I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some…

— Chuck Klosterman

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books…

— Chuck Klosterman

A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

-- 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

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

I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always…

— Chuck Klosterman

I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly…

— Chuck Klosterman

“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

The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people…

— Chuck Klosterman

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end…

— Chuck Klosterman

I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

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

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

Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never,…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously…

— Chuck Klosterman

Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were…

— Chuck Klosterman