If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

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.

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.

Waiting makes wine better

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams.

I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.