You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.
I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.