The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day....

“ The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world. ”

Marilyn Manson

From : The Long Hard Road Out of Hell