Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

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.

all fiction is better with explosions' said Jared. 'Basic fact of life.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.