I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

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.

You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.

I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.