People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you’re entering a world that’s pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don’t have the same language as you do. Lawrence Wright Read Quote
I guess I made a resolution years ago that I would only do things that were only really important or really fun. Lawrence Wright Read Quote
Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st. Lawrence Wright Read Quote
If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it’s proliferated. Lawrence Wright Read Quote
The U.S. is such an unusual place in the world because you can believe anything you want. Lawrence Wright Read Quote
Certainly, the two things Scientology has on its side are money and lawyers, but those qualities won’t save it if it can’t find a way to bring new members into the fold. Lawrence Wright Read Quote
It’s their belief, their own will, that holds people in Scientology, even oftentimes when they have been abused. Lawrence Wright Read Quote
