Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.