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.
Joel SteinEarly on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.
Joel SteinI'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.
Joel SteinIf New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.
Joel SteinI want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
Joel SteinYou 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."
Joel Stein