“He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have to hear her say in return, 'Someone has to do it.”
“Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking about myself less.”
“Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.”
“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.”
“Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.”