Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.