In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't… — 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
Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen… — 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
Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how… — 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
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
If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have 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
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
I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a… — 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
