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Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I was always a bit concerned about purity of essence. I never wanted a job that might affect the way I wrote or thought.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.