If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

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

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.