Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

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.

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

You think that peace means that no one will fight. True peace is when you create peace within yourself leaving no one to fight.

Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections.

When you believe in someone, they will do anything and everything to live up to those who believe in.

Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.