Useless Things

[alexyv]

… “You have always been useless. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t necessary.”

“What do you mean?”

“Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.”

“Is that a saying of an old master?”

“It’s a saying of an old fat woman on a donkey,” said Mu-pao. “And don’t you forget it.”

© Orson Scott Card “Xenocide”