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

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.