What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.