"We all have a responsibility to bear witness to what we see and to speak out against injustice."

"To write is to wrestle with the demons of the past."

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.