Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. – Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music. – Anon.