I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

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 can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts

When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!

There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

Take care of your dreams. Or your fears will care for them for you.

Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.