The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.