If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.
“I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.”
“There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.”