For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

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 journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

Isn't it time for you to stop your fears and doubts from standing in-between you and your true destiny in life?

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.