“Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'.”

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”

“So what does that make you think about God?I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.”

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”

“Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right.”

“The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.”