“What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.” ThinkingWayTwoOrderStruggleWindThirdsWoundsDubious Author:Joel Stein
“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.” ThinkingWantCareStuffAnimal Author:Joel Stein
“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.” ThinkingI CanSeemsMovingUsedImagineSeeingTreeSittingKillingAwfulRoughHuntingDoing NothingDeerDeer Hunting Author:Joel Stein
“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.” ThinkingMadeViewsJokesPoint Of ViewLibertarianI RealizedDave Author:Joel Stein
“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.” ThinkingTryingPersonsFeelingsInterestingParticularConversationNormalHopefully Author:Joel Stein
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantedAsksIdentityBe GoodHost Author:Joel Stein
“I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensTakenMovementExtremesLocalsIdioticLocal Food Author:Joel Stein
“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."” PeopleThinkingWantGovernmentHappensIndividualDecisionMoralExampleUnderstoodArmyYeahOver YouMoral Decisions Author:Joel Stein
“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.” ThinkingStoriesReaderHabitLettersMagazinesCommentSectionsTime Magazine Author:Joel Stein
