I thought creativity was just the putting together of things that would not "normally" be thought of as going together. Instead of the round peg in the round hole, the round peg on top of a sphere. Or, when working on the H-bomb, creativity gave them the idea to drive the explosion inward not outward which had been leading them to a dead end and no solution. I guess a creative person could be called "quicky and weird" because many of the abnormal combinations don't work.

I can't comment on the suffering - I don't understand suffering.