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.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

解析：禅定正义。

历史既没有愿望也没有能力使人变得更好或更坏；它仅仅记录了他们曾经是什么以及他们做了什么。