"Either kill me or accept me as I am, for may hell freeze over if I ever change-I have told you before and I tell you again, the beast is old-there is no longer hope he will change-the most honest, the most candid, the most sensitive of men, the most compassionate, the most charitable, a man who idolizes his children, for whose happiness he would walk through fire, meticulous to a flaw in his desire to make certain he will neither have the slightest negative influence on their morals nor damage their minds in any wise... So much for my virtues. As for my vices: much given to uncontrollable anger, extreme in everything, a profligate imagination when it comes to morals the likes of which the world has never seen, athiest to the point of fanaticism, in two words let me say it once again:either kill me or take me as I am, for I shall never change." Marquis de Sade [Nov. 1783] ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------"I reserve the right to be a lonely man." I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim rather than be subjected to the whims of others. Invariably, I wind up entertaining others. Or educating them. there is no push/pull. It is only pull and they do all the pulling. I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain. They require no energy-consuming interaction in order to salve a non-existent ego. For all most people really have to say, they might as well say nothing..... Most human interaction, being nothing more than small talk and games, is no waste of time to those so engaged. It is, in fact, necessary to their survival, for they would die of boredom otherwise. Anton Szandor LaVey [1992]