I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

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

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.