It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

All stories are true.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.