Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

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.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God... must it be sane?

The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.

There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.