Summer Crossings

'What Have I done? The sea asked the same, keen gulls repeated repeated the
sea. Most of Life is so dull it is not worth discussing and it is dull at all
ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood,
subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting
in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of
day-to-day living.

Unfortunently, one mirror is as treacherous as another, reflecting at some
point in every adventure the same vain unsatisfied face, and so when she asks
what have I done? she means really what am I doing? as one usually
does...'

Truman Capote