From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.

It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize that some of the stories wouldn't have been told if you hadn't gotten to them. There is that sense of capturing a moment that was just about to go over the horizon.