Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This… — 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
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation. — 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
The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision. — 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
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
To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack… — 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
