The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

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.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.

I grew up in an all-white community.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.