A Good Puzzle: this time, it's acrostic (explanation within)

If you actually recognize this guy, you can have the free hint

First-time acrostic solvers may want to read this first. If you're not gonna click on that:

• The top half is a quote
• The answers in the bottom half constitute a full unscramble of the top half, and each letter in each answer maps to a letter in the quote (start typing and you'll see)
• The first letter of each answer spells out the quoted person's name, hence the name
• There are no Down clues; read everything left to right
• I like to include word lengths, so an answer of WORDLENGTHS would have a (4, 7) after its clue

The individual clues tend to be harder because they're longer and the crossings work differently. I find it helpful to switch between solving the bottom and top halves - like if you saw a TH_ in the quote you might feel bold enough to guess the third letter in that word.