“ I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me. Chuck Klosterman
“ Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because soci… Chuck Klosterman
“ The reason shadow histories remained in the shadows lay in the centralization of information: If an idea wasn't discussed on one of three major networks or on the pages of a major daily newspaper or n… Chuck Klosterman
“ My goal is not to contradict conventional answer X by replacing it with unconventional answer Y. My goal is to think about the present in the same way we think about the past, wholly aware that such m… Chuck Klosterman
“ But-when you really think about it-that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don't have ways to quantify ideas like amazing or successful or lovable without the fee… Chuck Klosterman
“ 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 is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and fi… Chuck Klosterman
“ The men and women who forged this nation [USA] were straight-up maniacs about freedom. It was just about the only thing they cared about, so they jammed it into everything. This is understandable, as… Chuck Klosterman
“ And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played hi… Chuck Klosterman
“ The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident. Chuck Klosterman
“ If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? Chuck Klosterman
“ In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainme… Chuck Klosterman
“ If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. Chuck Klosterman
“ I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow. Chuck Klosterman
“ There is, certainly, an unbreachable chasm between the subjective and objective world. A reasonable person expects subjective facts to be overturned, because subjective facts are not facts; they're ju… Chuck Klosterman
“ Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone. Chuck Klosterman
