Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/500

What characterizes the power-mad is that they cannot take, not the sexy but frigid castrating woman, nor the fat police chief with his mustachios—they can only give. And changing sexual gears means to pass through the state of passivity—the take of the dialectic onward—in order to give more, locate more, create-destroy more. So, benevolent tyrants become absolute tyrants as they grow older.