Status Updates From Cannery Row

“It has always seemed strange to me” said Doc. “
“The things we admire in men, kindness, and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feelings 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 and whole men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”