45 Quotes by Joel Stein

I wish I’d legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

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 would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I’ll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

I’ve gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

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.

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.

As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I’d like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.