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You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.