On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of impressed by my enthusiasm. I'm just thankful that I got to become better at what I did, and that we didn't get cancelled in the first year.