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.

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.

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

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

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!

Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.