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.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

With faith in God, we can walk through the fires unharmed.

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.