395 Quotes by Chuck Klosterman

Flying to me isn’t scary, it’s just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I’m afraid to fly.

Now, obviously, all old people seem cool whenever we see black-and-white images of their younger selves. It’s human nature to inject every old picture with positive abstractions. We can’t help ourselves. We all do it. We want those things to be true, because we all hope future generations will have the same thoughts when they come across forgotten photographs of us.

It doesn’t matter what you can do if you don’t know why you’re doing it.

The reason something becomes retrospectively significant in a far-flung future is detached from the reason it was significant at the time of its creation – and that’s almost always due to a recalibration of social ideologies that future generations will accept as normative.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music ‘except country.’ People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it’s kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

If I were an adult, I would be drinking coffee; as it is, I’m drinking Mountain Dew.

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.