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

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.

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.

Consistently sporadic and sporadically consistent. That's me.

I rebel

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Don't worry about techniques. Don't worry about chakras. Instead, concern yourself with finding the dharma and meditate. Then the kundalini will release.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.

Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.