Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

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

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.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

We travel because we need to, because 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. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.