Rejection is a mental concept. It doesn’t really exist. One can feel rejected, but one cannot be rejected. And one can only feel rejected by making up a story of rejection to attach to an innocent, neutral event.”

Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.”