“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.”

“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.”

“I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust death As I have trusted life. I am moving Toward a new freedom”