  Intrinsic absorbers are significant components of AGN environments that
provide valuable information and interesting challenges. We present a very
brief (and biased, and sometimes speculative) overview of intrinsic absorbers
from the perspective of different absorption line classes. We also discuss ways
of addressing and learning from the "problem" of partial coverage of the
background light source, with some examples based on new high-resolution
rest-frame UV spectra of quasars.
