Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer

Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

Being a heart throb would be crazy.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.