I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

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.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

After the house is finisht, leave it.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

Joy emanates out of the abiding sense of God’s fierce love for us.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.