“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

“I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.”

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

“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.”

“The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.”

“The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.”