I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me. Chuck Klosterman More Quotes by Chuck Klosterman More Quotes From Chuck Klosterman Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. Chuck Klosterman process love art It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying. Chuck Klosterman peculiar remember trying Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened. Chuck Klosterman sex-drugs life-is thinking Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise. Chuck Klosterman sleep lying past Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift through it. The overwhelming majority of those opinions are going to be ignored, because if every opinion is being offered, really no opinion is being offered. Chuck Klosterman majority opinion looks Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. Chuck Klosterman opinion What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic. Chuck Klosterman depressing hate moving Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch. Chuck Klosterman recognition lunch loss Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose. Chuck Klosterman sarcasm purpose lying I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered. Chuck Klosterman horse reality past First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much. Chuck Klosterman too-much love-you firsts Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable. Chuck Klosterman replaced has-beens interesting 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 we want. Chuck Klosterman mother desire needs Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that. Chuck Klosterman cliche important want Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world. Chuck Klosterman people looks world I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. Chuck Klosterman crazy reading book It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons. Chuck Klosterman insane people years I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out. Chuck Klosterman animal people thinking I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow. Chuck Klosterman car music people Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless. Chuck Klosterman interaction soundtracks humans
