Fui y seré me ponen triste ...; tomo un gramo (de soma) y sólo soy. - Aldous Huxley

But God doesn't change.'
'Men do, though.'
'What difference does that make?'
'All the difference in the world.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power....