The myth of ‘mad’ genius (aeon.co)
I’ve always wondered if a lot of “eccentric” people aren’t just behaving the way everybody would naturally behave if they could get away with it. I say and do a lot of things because I have to if I want to have food to eat and a place to sleep, but I’ll never know how different my behavior _might_ have been if I were rich enough or brilliant enough that people would just put up with whatever I happened to feel like doing at any given moment.