“ I’ve obliterated three days trying to come up with an elegant way to write what I’m about to write, but I think the least elegant way is probably best: I like Kanye West. Chuck Klosterman
“ If you know exactly what’s going to happen tomorrow, the voltage of that experience is immediately mitigated. Chuck Klosterman
“ If we all took media messages at their absolute face value, we’d all be sleeping with our best friends. And that does happen, sometimes.* But herein lies the trap: We’ve also been trained to think thi… Chuck Klosterman
“ Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem. Chuck Klosterman
“ Batman never questions the logic of letting a childhood experience dictate his entire life. Chuck Klosterman
“ Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males a… Chuck Klosterman
“ We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time. Chuck Klosterman
“ Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people do whatever they believe is the right thing to do. Being virtuous is hard, not easy. The ide… Chuck Klosterman
“ The reason things unacceptable in life are acceptable in fiction is because fiction is often the only way we can comfortably examine the morally obscene. For Chuck Klosterman
“ On the third play he dropped back to pass, and it was unadulterated chaos: The pocket was immediately collapsing, people were yelling, everything was happening at the same time, and it felt like he wa… Chuck Klosterman
“ It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. Chuck Klosterman
“ It also creates a problematic reflection: If a villain is the person who knows the most and cares the least, then a hero is the person who cares too much without knowing anything. It makes every hero… Chuck Klosterman
“ If you want to experience a free-flowing discourse devoid of limitation, you need to seek the darkest fringes of the Internet (and none of that anonymous bile can bleed back into proper society, becau… Chuck Klosterman
“ If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can’t just try to see the other side of an argument. That’s not enough. You have to go all the way. Over Chuck Klosterman
“ History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, a set of lies agreed upon). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will ev… Chuck Klosterman
“ Do you understand? Do you see the forest through the trees? Do you not see what I am no longer not saying to you? If so—congratulations! Prepare to have sex constantly. Chuck Klosterman
“ …I have never understood the concept of infatuation. It has always been my understanding that being ‘infatuated’ with someone means you think you are in love, but you’re actually not; infatuation is (… Chuck Klosterman
“ We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled. Chuck Klosterman
