Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

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.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.