Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].

A functioning police state needs no police.