Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.