My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

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.

When the color goes out of your soul, you are left with an empty heart.

Wisdom dwells in the heart of God.

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.