The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.