“There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.For being still. Coupled with thisa desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.”

“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt and fuse you together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul, instead of two....”

“Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul”

“The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.”

“Service is a life demonstration. It is a soul urge and is . . . an evolutionary impetus of the soul . . . . It is the outstanding characteristic of the soul, just as desire is the outstanding characteristic of the lower nature.”

“There is something to be said about being the object of one’s desire, that you have all the control, but being craved by a blood thirsty vampire is the doom of any soul.”