Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

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.

First love yourself.. the real inner-self.. then only you’ll be able to love the world.. the lives.. the souls.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.