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

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.

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.

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.'

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

John F. Kennedy loved America. He was proud to be an American. And you'd call that politician JFK. That's who he was. He was not in any way a liberal as you know liberals today.