I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

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

I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.