Man makes stories and thinks creatively via a three-part process, the first element of which is a strong silence, similar to the silence before the curtain lifts on a stage, which for a shard of a second eliminates prejudices and preceding notions and allows the coming together of concepts that prior to this instant did not exist, in the mind of the thinker at least.

George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, loc. 453