I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

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.

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

I have no idea what I’m doing, and that’s kind of how I love it.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.