Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper but I think I shied away from journalism.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers and as a national champion I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that and it's a sad sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

I want you to know that despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months the U.S.-Canada relationship.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

You know bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet and you know there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right you can fix it.

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

If there was no Black Sabbath I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Homer is new this morning and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper while I shave and bathe and dress.

I write early in the morning usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I'd always been a news junkie always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power control sexuality and race.

You know the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

A city with one newspaper or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership is like a man with one eye and often the eye is glass.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online too but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

When you think of couponing you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.