The best way to fight the terrorists is to have the freest country on earth. You should be able to get on an airplane, and people - that will not possibly happen again.

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.

Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

In England, football is important for everybody.

God is diverse and inclusive, not limited and exclusive. You're thinking of a Country Club.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.

One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.