Harper Lee Quotes
I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1960.
The intellectually clever person will have many who will follow him and leverage his ideas. This is one of the reasons that intellectuals are sought as leaders and advisors, but also distrusted by power structures just because the can find followers.
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Lee published only two books, yet she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature. She also received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill Harris in To Kill a Mockingbird.