45 Quotes by Joel Stein

I hate walking up to strangers.

If New Vegas foretells something about America’s future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

I love sushi, but I’m not going to write a column about it.

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.

People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, “No, I’m a writer, I don’t host things.” Just thinking I wouldn’t be good at it – which is true – but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

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.

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.

You don’t get anywhere without saying yes.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can’t get away with in a book.