"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous," famed science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard once declared. "If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start his own religion." Hubbard later took his own advice, and founded the Church of Scientology.

[Tom Cruise credited Scientology (which claims that man evolved from the lowly mollusk) with curing his dyslexia.]