Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

A promise is just an empty shell filled with words, and words are weightless.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.

The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

we train for war and fight to win.

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.