My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

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 flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence.

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.