“But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.”
“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”
“I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.”
“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.”
“Those were the most tortuous two months of my short and uninteresting life.”