I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.

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.

Silver surfers ... nah, that's old hat. Retire a gold surfer with Cosmic Ordering.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.