I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

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.

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.

He is a leader among leaders.

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.