Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. - Margaret Atwood

Perhaps he's reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier.

When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.