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

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.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it – and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life.

It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child