Quotes from Joel Stein

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.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.