A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

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.

Laziness always wins.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.