When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

If you are always taking the right actions that your goals demand, it would almost be impossible to ever experience a stagnant state of existence.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Get drunk by drinking the magical beauty and tranquil tonic of nature

Sometimes, the emptiness comes to fill the space between my heart and my head. It consumes every thought, every corner of my mind, like demons that can’t be put to bed.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.