I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

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.

Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder.

Most corporate decisions aren't going to meet the test of high validity. But they're going to be way above the low-validity situations that we worry about.

I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.

Some people there's no getting over.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.