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.
"A character in a novel has more freedom than his creator - this is the irony that sustains my writing."
追随我的好奇与直觉,大部分我所投入过的事务,后来看来都成了无比珍贵的经历。
"The dead are always with us, and we are always with them."