“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.”

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality”

“It is impossible to grasp another human's inner world. But even in the darkness of the densest forest, there can always be the light of a firefly.”

“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.”

“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”

“The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him.”