I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

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.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Vladimir Putin is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, oh, isn't that a terrible thing - the man has very strong control over a country.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.