I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

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.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.