“One can't learn much andalso be comfortableOne can't learn much andlet anybody else be comfortable”

“If a good man can't sleep after hurting people, then he should learn much more to be a leader.”

“Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?”

“Just because you took too much for granted before, doesn't mean you can't learn from your mistakes.”

“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”

“It was strange to experience in one night the difference between wanting something you cannot have and having something you cannot want. I wished it wasn't my time to learn it. No one else seemed to be learning much of anything.”