Norman Spinrad said this quote

[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.

~ Norman Spinrad

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

~ Norman Spinrad

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

~ Norman Spinrad

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

~ Norman Spinrad