The Molecule of More

Chapter 4

CREATIVITY AND

MADNESS

The risks and rewards of the highly

dopaminergic brain.

In which dopamine breaks down the barriers of the ordinary.

The same thoughts kept racing through my mind over and over and over

again. I just wanted them to stop... Then I said, who am I going to call?

Then I called up Ghostbusters. I mean, no, that came out wrong. I didn’t

call up Ghostbusters, I called crisis intervention... Can I go back inside

now? I think somebody might be trying to shoot me.

—Excerpted from an interview with a

man living with schizophrenia

The creative mind is the most potent force on earth. No oil well, gold
mine, or thousand-acre farm can compete with the wealth-producing

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

—William Plomer, writer