… when some private obsession produces a metaphor we can find a use for, we speak of genius rather than eccentricity or perversity.

Richard Rorty, Contingeny, Irony, and Solidarity (1989)

Now let me ask you a question: Would an imbecile come up with this? 

Tim Robbins, The Hudsucker Proxy (1994 ), by Joel and Ethan Coen