Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.

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

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.