“Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.”
“Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.”
“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”
“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.”
“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”