Comedy is taken care of by a free market.

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.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character.

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.