The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

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.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.

When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.