Quotes from Chuck Klosterman

At some point, if you live long enough, it's probably impossible to avoid seeming crazy.

If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us—leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Well, that's how it always seems, until it doesn't.

In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional success. The nineties were not an age for the aspirant. The worst thing you could be was a sellout, and not because selling out involved money. Selling out meant you needed to be popular, and any explicit desire for approval was enough to prove you were terrible.

There's simply no way around the limited ceiling of my own mind.

Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.

I would never directly contradict anything Neil deGrasse Tyson says, because—compared to Neil deGrasse Tyson—my skull is a bag of hammers.

Within any generation there are always two distinct classes: a handful who accept an embody the assigned caricature, and many more others who are caricatured against their will, simply because they happen to be born in a particular year. It was no different for generation x. The only dissimilarity is that it bothered them less.

The biggest problem in my life,' he said, 'is my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine

even the groups who took advantage of the gold rush were dubious about what was happening.

Here, of course, lies the biggest difference between a successful interviewer and an unsuccessful one: the successful one makes the interviewee feel as though he or she is interested in the answers. The unsuccessful interviewer—and I have sat in or listened to enough interviews to know, unfortunately, and disappointingly, how common they are—does not.

Its easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.

Part of the presidential job description is the absorption of public vitriol.

The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it's like Pet Sounds. The

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

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 Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.