You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

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.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!