Dreams. I’ve been having nightmares recently: gory ones – truly, impressively horrific story lines that I didn’t know lived inside me. How interesting that our brains work so diligently and mysteriously at night while our bodies sleep. Can that creativity be harnessed?

Tim Burton. I just love this guy’s brain and what it comes up with.

Whales! It will never cease to amaze me that they are really large mammals.