Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Imitation is criticism.

She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand.

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

Beggars invention and makes fancy lame.

[But he doesn't like her proclamation, also made in the documentary about her 2004 Re-Invention tour, that] most priests are gay. ... We're glad to see she is no longer with us. Jews will have to make up their own mind about whether they're going to welcome her. Lots of them don't want to.