Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

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