“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
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Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine (December 1970)
“Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 98