Andy Baio:

As it turns out, organizing the world's information isn't always profitable.

Elizabeth Holmes:

Hundreds of bloggers earn tens of thousands of dollars a year from affiliate relationships, people familiar with the industry say. A few make that much in a month.

Andrew Sullivan:

I want to let you know I've decided to stop blogging in the near future.

Tyler Cowen:

The "problem" is that the web gives people what they want. Those who survive as bloggers will be those who do not care too much about what other people want.

Matt Webb:

Let's be clear... this is all about me: What I get out of this is that somehow, by typing, four unrelated things that have caught my eye sometimes show signs of coherence. I get glimpses of the gestalt. So that's why I type.

JoAnn Wypijewski:

James Baldwin does not say that systems of power are unimportant. He insists that liberation is also a mandate on individuality: how one separates oneself from the "habits of thought [that] reinforce and sustain the habits of power" -- in essence, how one comes into his or her humanity.

Ursula K. Le Guin:

The man is all that is civilized -- learned, kindly, idealistic, decent. The shadow is all that gets suppressed in the process of becoming a decent, civilized adult. The shadow is the man's thwarted selfishness, his unadmitted desires, the swear-words he never spoke, the murders he didn't commit. The shadow is the dark side of his soul, the unadmitted, the inadmissible. And what Hans Christian Andersen is saying is that this monster is an integral part of the man and cannot be denied -- not if the man wants to enter the House of Poetry.

How do you get there? How do you find your own private entrance to the collective unconscious?