Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.