“Genius is childhood recovered at will.”
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
“Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.”
“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”