Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

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.

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.