If, from the word go, you have power, but want more and have the means to get it, eventually you get all the power an individual can have. But flies still fly, and germs remain invisible - and so long as something, somewhere in the cosmos is beyond your command, you don't have everything. Nothing you've got is going to make up for the control hole, once you've spotted it.
-- Jenny Diski (He Could Afford It)

Importance: Diski writes these words when considering the life of Howard Hughes. Hughes had many anxieties and neuroses. Notably, he was afraid of germs. Because he had so much wealth and power, he was able to work the world around these neuroses, to make the world accommodate them to some degree. Still, there is no amount of money or power that can control for or overcome all anxieties, and this is what Diski points out in this quote.

It goes against...
-- Jenny Diski (Stinker)