> I keep a diary, because writing it helps me to think and reflect on things, and reading it helps me to remember things, but I know that I'm not a great writer

> I keep a diary, because writing it helps me to think and reflect on things, and reading it helps me to remember things, but I know that I'm not a great writer and I worry that I'm just recording uninteresting banalities. I often write privately to help clarify my thoughts, but destroy the paper immediately afterward: In practice, nobody would ever read what I wrote anyway, and it frees me from any worry about writing down something that might cause trouble later.