“Always desire to learn something useful.”
“It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.”
“There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.”
“I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.”
“I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.”
“I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.”