Steven Brust Quotes

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

I've never not felt relevant.

Positions do not really matter.

I just wanna be relevant.

Language is very important to me.

We're the most important group in the world.

If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

I'm just trying to matter.

I don't want to not be important.

The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

The dignity of history.

Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea." "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-" "Or twice-" "A minute-" "All summer-" "Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.