138 Quotes by Lawrence Wright

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.

I think this is a great thing for the conference. We've got two teams in the Sweet 16. They can't say we're overrated now, or that we got too many teams in the tournament.