The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.

Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.