A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

No, thanks, " said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.

Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.