Technology adds nothing to art.

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.

No need for miracles to do the impossible if we have beliefs, will and insistence

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

My walk is consistently made fun of.