“ I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and I am struck by the fact that I am alone. And that everyone is alone. And that everything I understoo… Chuck Klosterman
“ I do not know how much money Britney Spears earned last year.. However, I do know that it's not enough for me to want her life, were I given the option to have it. Every day, random people use Britney… Chuck Klosterman
“ The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constru… Chuck Klosterman
“ TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling. Chuck Klosterman
“ Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less. Chuck Klosterman
“ The message of The Winner Takes It All is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is in… Chuck Klosterman
“ It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdos who care the most. Chuck Klosterman
“ It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure. Chuck Klosterman
“ I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. Chuck Klosterman
“ We’re starting to behave as if we’ve reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing. Chuck Klosterman
“ The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage. It will more likely derive from our uncompromising belief in the things we conside… Chuck Klosterman
“ Ohio is a scale model of the entire country, jammed into 43,000 square miles. Cleveland views itself as the intellectual East (its citizens believe they have a rivalry with Boston and unironically cla… Chuck Klosterman
“ Let’s assume it was Christopher Columbus’s destiny to discover the New World, and let’s pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible difference would that have made in his day-to-day l… Chuck Klosterman
