Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

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.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.

I love sleep. I need sleep. We all do, of course. There are those people that don't need sleep. I think they're called 'successful.

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.