>> i think there may be an interesting historical example with hermann melville. hermann hman melville wrote several popular novels in the 1840s. he was highly talented but not particularly original: and then something happened around 1850. is he fell in love. in fact, he fell in love with nathaniel hawthorne. >> ros oh! >>nd this was not reciprocated and therefore the lib doe didn't have its normal outlet and it was in this state of passion and restraint that moby dick emerged. a work of genius from the first sentence. >> rose: we can thank... the less of this we can thank nathaniel hawthorne for "moby dick." >> and nathaniel hawthorne thanked melville with a great, great article about that. >> that's a very nice story. >> rose: stay with me, this is very interesting. because the scientists... i know many scientists and many artists who have an a fantastically rich sexual life. it enhances their productivity ratherhan decreases it. i think there are a thousand ways to be creative. a lot of different ways. what i think is a similarity between artists and scientist