“What is the first best thing?”
“Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power.”
“Oh, is it?” I asked, laughing. “What about sex?”
“No. Apart from the biology, sex is all about power. That’s why it’s such a rush.”
I laughed again.
“And what about love ? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power.”
“They’re wrong,” she said with terse finality.” Love is the opposite of power. That’s why we
fear it so much.”

Gregory David Roberds, Shantaram