Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

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.

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time.

you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.

Influence is independent of numbers. Influencing positive change in one person is still influence.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.