I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!

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

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.