The novel is a mirror walking down the road.
Success is the best revenge for the doubters.
You have to be passionate about what you do, or you'll never succeed.
"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."