If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

In response to a 2006 interview question as to what the most pressing issue facing the United States was he stated:

We will find abortion and the despotic Roe v. Law & Order producers claim they were forced to remove Moriarty from the series because of "erratic behavior" an example of which reportedly happened during the filming of the episode "Breeder" when according to the episode's director Arthur Forney Moriarty was unable to deliver his lines with a straight face. In 2007 he debuted his first feature-length film as screenwriter and performed the role of a man who thinks he is Adolf Hitler in Hitler Meets Christ.

Michael Moriarty (born April 5 1941) is an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and a jazz musician.