10 shocking quotes from 'Going Clear,' the book that HBO's explosive new Scientology documentary is based on

I had to stop underlining the sentences in GOING CLEAR that made me gasp in horror because I would've ended up underlining the whole book. Lawrence Wright's clear-eyed, phenomenally researched takedown of Scientology is straight-up terrifying. And also undeniably funny. Here are just a few of the most astounding/awful/hilarious quotes from the book, presented by Wright with very little editorializing. 1. "The last time he [L. Ron Hubbard] showed Excalibur to a publisher, he said, the reader brou...