It is always well to get near to men of genius.
A genius is a lunatic who made it!
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham's wife didn't like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the house been picketed, but a Japanese trespass...
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Pa...
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in crea...
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a n...
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 an...
It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more...
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
I never said I was a genius.
Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
(Genius equal to the majesty of nature.) [ ]
Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.
I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
