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

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.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.