I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

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.

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

God makes the harvest to grow. But we choose the kind of seed we sow.

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.

You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don’t have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life’s lessons.

Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.