Have discovered the best quote, and wanted to share (in a Northern American kind of way)...
"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't...Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own."
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Somebody needs to write a book of my life, and explain it all to me, I'm out to lunch...