“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
“Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform- and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.”
“Inspiration in desperation.”
“Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
“Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.”
“In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.”