“In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn’t been squashed. The early stuff is still there.”

I’ve been collecting since college, .. When we’re children, we’re taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors.

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it’s unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it’s unrehearsed and clumsy!

When they feel invisible, it’s easy for them to leave.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

It’s hard to force creativity and humor.

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up.