Whenever I canโt sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend Iโve been assassinated. Iโve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine Iโm in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.
Chuck KlostermanLet's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.
Chuck KlostermanIt 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 KlostermanPeople hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
Chuck KlostermanMaybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.
Chuck Klosterman