twenty-seven years and one million words
My long-time friend Jon and his family are in town; naturally, I ran into them on the street on the way to work.
'Cos Toronto's just a small town, y'see.
It has always seemed strange to me...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. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row