If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.