I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

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.

Whoever fear God, shall depart from evil.

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

Children's books are by nature partisan.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Together we can do great things.

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.