Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

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.

I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.

I've always kept my body in shape and I will continue to always keep my body in shape.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

I am conscious of eternal life.

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.