Creativity Is A Prairie Dogg

This one's for Wiley, a great admirer of fast-twitch suspicion:

Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way – towards a busy street or terminal – before they run out of their burrows.

Alain de Botton wrote that, referring to a week he spent writing at a desk in the middle of an airport.

Thank you PSFK.

(Note: I'm again and again impressed by the jolts of happiness that good metaphors give me.)