The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

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'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.

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.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.