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

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.

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.

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

Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

My bank does not accept likes.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.