Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
“I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.”
“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”