I review recent results for quasars and discuss how they are related to
activity in galaxies. Topics included are studies of quasar host galaxies with
HST; searches for quasars in the Hubble Deep Field; evolution of the quasar
luminosity function; news highlights from astro-ph; and current observational
problems and their relation to theoretical work.Comment: 8 pages (LaTeX, paspconf.sty), invited review to appear in
proceedings of IAU Sym. 194, "Activity in Galaxies and Related Phenomena"
(1998 August 17-21, Byurakan, Armenia), ASP Conf. Series, ed. Y. Terzian, E.
Khachikian, and D. Weedma
