Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.