» In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
» Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
» Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
» The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
» 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.