There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.