I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

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.

with hope, you can survive any shock.

Act with the heart of the warrior.

Even a brick wants to be something.A brick wants to be something.It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is.It wants to be something better than it is.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more.” ― Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!