Joel Stein Quotes
When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.
Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.
I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.
I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.
You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.
There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.
If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.
When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.
You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.
I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.
I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.
People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.
Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.
The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.
I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.
I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.
I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.
I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.
