“ Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film realistic, everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy endi… Chuck Klosterman
“ But it would be far more effective—and considerably more inventive—to enact that same process with a text that has no preexisting meaning. A book that is just a book: the forgotten airport bestseller… Chuck Klosterman
“ Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends... unless they're sexy. And sometimes we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies... assuming… Chuck Klosterman
“ The defining line from Frank Herbert’s Dune argues that the mystery of life is not a question to be answered but a reality to be experienced. My fantasy offers the opposite. Nothing would be experienc… Chuck Klosterman
“ Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid… Chuck Klosterman
“ Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really need anything new, so we only create what… Chuck Klosterman
“ My personal war against the so-called soccer menace probably reached its peak in 1993, when I was nearly fired from a college newspaper for suggesting that soccer was the reason thousands of Brazilian… Chuck Klosterman
“ It’s natural to think of one’s own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative we are always the central character. Thoughtful people try to overcome this compulsion, but they us… Chuck Klosterman
“ Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in America partially by deception. (In an 1858 debate, he flatly insisted that he had no intention of a… Chuck Klosterman
“ I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase,” ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. “I found him completely dishonest an… Chuck Klosterman
“ In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person… Chuck Klosterman
