The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

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.

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land With a wig, yeah. And some crisps.

He who loves not lives not.

I scored 1.1 on my SAT, And still push a whip with a right and left AC.

The bigger the dream, the more important to the team.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.