Chuck Klosterman Quotes: 7

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

  Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

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

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

  Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

• 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.

  Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

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

  Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

• 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.

  Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

• I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog."This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one.

  Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story