The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

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.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.

Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!

I literally believe I'm going to do everything I set out to do, which is a pretty amazing feeling.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.