45 Quotes by Joel Stein

I’ve learned over time that every editor has told me when you’re getting that much hate, you don’t talk about it. You just kind of don’t give it oxygen and let it go away. It’s almost – not always, but almost – always the best policy.

I don’t read “letters” sections of magazines, but I’ll read anyone’s blog post about me.

You don’t really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don’t think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it’s like, “Oh, yeah, I guess you can’t really have people make individual moral decisions.”

I can’t imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn’t imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

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 have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn’t even happen every year.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

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.