Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

They may be a little more high brow than we are.

Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell

Praise the sea but keep on land.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.