Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The season of evil, " I echoed. "Protect your soul.

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

The book didn't want to be copied?I should introduce it to the house that doesn't want any occupants.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.

It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy