I Don't Think I'd Ever Be Cruel

I Don't Discount Belief. I Just Discount Most Of The Things That People Believe In.

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!

Our Country Was Founded On A Distrust Of Government. Our Founding Fathers Gave Power To The People To Keep An Eye On Government. So When Politicians Say, 'trust Me,' They're Actually Being Very Un-american.

At Princeton I Wrote My Junior Paper On Virginia Woolf, And For My Senior Thesis I Wrote On Samuel Beckett. I Wrote Some About "between The Acts" And "mrs. Dalloway'' But Mostly About "to The Lighthouse." With Beckett I Focused, Perversely, On His Novels, "molloy," "malone Dies," And "the Unnamable." That's When I Decided I Should Never Write Again.

I Had A Fear That I'd Be Typecast, But I Don't Really Have That Fear Anymore.