Faith & Spirit Quote by Michael Moriarty

Aliens are almost a decoy here: a pop-cultural placeholder for the larger right to speculate. Moriarty frames “talk about aliens” not as fringe escapism but as evidence of a functioning spirit. By calling it “part of the gift God gave us,” he smuggles imagination out of the suspect category of fantasy and into the sanctified category of human equipment. It’s a savvy move from an actor whose whole craft depends on belief in the unseen and the invented; he’s defending the very mechanism that makes stories possible.

The line “We’re pretty stuck” supplies the pressure point. It acknowledges the claustrophobia of ordinary life - routines, limits, aging, systems - without turning it into self-pity. That small, conversational “you know” invites complicity: this isn’t a manifesto, it’s a bedside truth. From there, “What gives flight to our life is our imagination” turns metaphor into argument. “Flight” suggests both escape and elevation, a lift that doesn’t deny gravity but counters it. He’s not claiming imagination fixes the world; he’s claiming it makes the world livable.

Context matters: Moriarty’s public persona has long included a contrarian streak and a willingness to drift outside approved conversation. Read that way, the quote doubles as a defense of cultural breathing room. Even if aliens are nonsense, the impulse to wonder isn’t. He’s pushing back against a culture that confuses skepticism with sophistication, insisting that excitement - real, sustaining excitement - begins where certainty ends.