We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never ….

If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to b….

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes..

Nobody acts purely selfishly..

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes..

To be worshiped is not freedom..

Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune ….

I have to admit, I do loooove eggnog..

If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomp….

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that..

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn..

What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How can anyone help asking….

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power..

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss….

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different..

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it..

My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself..

Don't talk to us like we ignint!.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there..

I don't belong to anyone..

I'm no longer interested in the possible..