I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
Literature is about telling stories.
There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.
