I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

A paper town for a paper girl.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.