Quotes from Chuck Klosterman

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

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

But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know.

Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.

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 are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture.

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it.

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.