Charles Forsman Quotes

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Make the paper interesting.

When fans know they are being rewarded, they are more engaged.

Much is published, but little printed.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read.

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

There's a line in the Arthur Russell documentary where his partner talks about how Arthur is really interested in process. He never felt like anything was finished, and he would even work on things after they'd been released. I definitely relate to that.

And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."

Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

Letting go of control, that's actually when you're safe.