At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.
The act of writing is an act of defiance.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.