I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

The test of true competence is the end result.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Great men dare the giant of impossibilities

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

Ruthless. That’s my girl.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

I'm the type of guy that I wear my heart on my sleeve. If I'm in a good or bad mood, then everybody knows it.