Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

Reading can be dangerous.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

That’s right, Sadie. For our first real date, I picked up Zia in a boat pulled by a deranged griffin. So what? Like your dates aren’t weird?