Too often, it occurs to him that he’s lived just long enough to have completely outlived the world that made sense to him, the world where he fit. He - Caitlín R. Kiernan

Eventually you’ve got to understand that an answer isn’t the same thing as a solution, and a story is sometimes only an excuse.

As coisas que acontecem a você te fazem ser quem você é, para o bem ou para o mal.

I pondered exactly how future biographers would go about writing the biographies of authors without letters. It's not like email and "chat" and whatnot will fill the void. Online journals help a little, but they are not, generally, the truly honest sorts of things that letters were, and only a few authors keep them. I tried for years to keep up letter writing, but was defeated in the end by too many unreliable correspondents.