Perhaps what we sometimes call "genius" is simply a refusal to altogether let go of childhood imagination.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.