Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

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.

Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

I can never find the right bras.

I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.

He saved the world, but he shattered mine.

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

I decline to go fox hunting.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.