I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

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.

Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

My focus is always on the conditions that create social problems, not just a particular person.

when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable