To maximize your creativity, throw away most of what you believe you know and reconstruct your knowledge .

On a hot summer day the pavement looks like a pool of water, but it's only a .

He was a traffic cop until his supervisors realized that he could be the next Sherlock Holmes. Now he is the department's most accomplished .

"I'm not walking down Broadway without my hat and sunglasses," the Scottish Academy Award-winning actress said. "I have a face."

"I've had it with these Republicans!" railed the art professor. "All they care about is the accumulation of wealth in their prosaic, trivial lives. They are ; they have no appreciation for culture ."