My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

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 work is plentiful but the labours are few.

The past is not complete until you are finished with it.

We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.