'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

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.

Grace freely given by God,

All the humanity (Not the people!), are incrediable. What makes them incrediable is the way of thinking, the way of solving!

All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a “family resemblance” to Him by the way you live?

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.