“ As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life. Chuck Klosterman
“ The increasingly common ideology that assures people they’re right about what they believe.... is, however, socially detrimental . It hijacks conversation and aborts ideas. It engenders a delusion of… Chuck Klosterman
“ There’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you’re rich and insecure or poor and misinformed. Chuck Klosterman
“ We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die. Chuck Klosterman
“ 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 is not like Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive, where… Chuck Klosterman
“ This is how the present must be considered whenever we try to think about it as the past: It must be analyzed through the values of a future that’s unwritten. Before we can argue that something we cur… Chuck Klosterman
“ The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too. Chuck Klosterman
“ The reason something becomes retrospectively significant in a far-flung future is detached from the reason it was significant at the time of its creation—and that’s almost always due to a recalibratio… Chuck Klosterman
“ The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks. Chuck Klosterman
“ Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation. Chuck Klosterman
“ Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, That would certainly make everything easier, even though I can’t think of one person who’d q… Chuck Klosterman
“ Sid and Nancy's relationship forever illustrates the worst part of being in love with anyone, which is that people in love can't be reasoned with. Chuck Klosterman
“ My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life’s minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of six-sided questions, but everything that actually matters can… Chuck Klosterman
“ Julia's fake love for Vance was exhilarating and idiotic; it was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know. Chuck Klosterman
“ If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the Chuck Klosterman
“ 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 in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poo… Chuck Klosterman
“ I attempted to make a more academic argument about how the Limp Bizkit song Nookie was misogynist for suggesting that the protagonist’s ex-girlfriend should inject a cookie into her vagina (or maybe t… Chuck Klosterman
