I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

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.

...creative output depends on creative input.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.

Don't compromise your principles.

I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.