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

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

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.

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.

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.'

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

There are more blessings in the book of your destiny than your negative thoughts and beliefs are suggesting.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.

Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

Humility is the key to liberation.

I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.