"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball."

"I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other."

"I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted."

"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it."

"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."

"Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do."

"Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?"

"I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that."

"What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line."

"'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad."

"'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in."

"The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did."

"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"

"Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it."

"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."

"Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being."

"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself."

"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."

"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."

"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words."

"Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else."

"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."

"I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity"

"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

"There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness."

"Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier")."

"You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking."

"...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth."

"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant."

"Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still."

"And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance."

"The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info."

"Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

"To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish"

"I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them."

"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me."

"True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world."

"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."

"Sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."

"... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable".""

"Every love story is a ghost story."

"I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten."

"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic."

"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear"

"Mediocrity is contextual."

"The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir."