I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

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 still have the passion to play.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again.

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.