Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

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.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.