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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.

Heaven would never be heaven without you.

Passion for books is the desire to read.

Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.