Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

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.

The power to create lies in the thoughts and words.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

America is the greatest sin against God.

I intend to have protections for the L.G.B.T. community in there. I'm not going to make choices between that community and the non-L.G.B.T. community.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.