One cannot truly trace the course of a life in a thousand pages. Let us have the reticence here not to attempt it in a thousand words. (Samuel R. Delany)

One cannot truly trace the course of a life in a thousand pages. Let us have the reticence here not to attempt it in a thousand words.

Samuel R. Delany

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