The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope..

I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it..

I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within….

Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back..

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to coll….

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all..

You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with….

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing..

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put….

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music,….

Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who’s trying to kill u – u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her..

After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so….

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se. It's become a ….

Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right..

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it..

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?.

Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a ca….

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome..

There's nothing I won't attempt..

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art..