on Jean Genet's theiving (to make sense of the world)

After this destruction another destructive act follows in the conversion of the value of a object from a use value to a value of exchange. Theft results, thus, in the radical destruction of the stolen object, the disorganization of the values of usefulness and sentimental association, an impoverishment of the world. Our acts sketch our form on being, the created object present its creator to himself in an objective dimension. In creation I am really exteriorized amongst beings in the world: in destruction the universe is reabsorbed into me.

- R. D. Laing and D. G. Cooper, Reason & Violence: A Decade of Sartre’s Philosophy, 1950 - 1960, pg 89.