"A true journal presents us with the more riotous and disorganized reality. The various stages of development are there, but they are jumbled up, counterposed and repeated randomly. The selves jostle for prominence in these pages... It doesn't make sense; the logical, perceived progression never takes place. The true journal in time understands this fact and doesn't try to posit any order or hierarchy, doesn't try to judge or analyze: I am all these different people-all these different people are me."
"We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being."
-Any Human Heart, William Boyd
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