Mulder: I'm reading the box scores, Scully. You'd like it. It's like
the Pythagorean Theorem for jocks. It distills all the chaos and action
of any game in the history of all baseball games into one tiny, perfect,
rectangular sequence of numbers. I can look at this box and I can
recreate exactly what happened on some sunny summer day back
in 1947. It's like the numbers talk to me, they comfort me. They
tell me that even though lots of things can change some things do
remain the same. It's...
Scully (interrupting): Boring. Mulder, can I ask you a
personal question?
Mulder: Of course not.
Scully: Did your mother ever tell you to go outside and play?
-- David Duchovny. The X-Files, Season 6,
(1999) "The Unnatural"