Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

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.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

Truth is above all, but higher still is true living.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

I made it very clear that I rejected bigotry of all forms.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.