If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

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.

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

You are the sum of my infatuation and infinite devotion.

There was a time when He was not.

I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Sixth sense, six pack, six degrees of separation / My evil third eye blinks with no hesitation

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.