Klosterman Quotes

“The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl

“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

“...he was forty bushels beyond bamboozled.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl

“...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl

“But-when you really think about it-that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don't have ways to quantify ideas like "amazing" or "successful" or "lovable" without the feedback of an audience. Nobody sits by himself in an empty room and thinks "I'm amazing." It's impossible to imagine how that would work. But being "amazing" is supposed to be what life is about. As a result, the windows of time people spend by themselves become these meaningless experiences that don't really count. It's filler. They're deleted scenes.”
― Chuck Klosterman, The Visible Man

“I also need to prepare myself for the inevitability of utter boredom: Very often, single people don't do shit. They do nothing, all night long. They sit in a recliner and watch TV. I've probably watched more television than anyone you've ever met, and I don't even own one. Terrible shows, good shows, Golf tournaments in Cancun. C-SPAN. Hours of Oprah. Law and Order. Lonely people love Law and Order, for whatever reason. They prefer the straight narratives. p60”
― Chuck Klosterman, The Visible Man