Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

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.

Men have two outstanding features--their brains and their genitalia. Unfortunately, both rarely function simultaneously.

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

Honestly, I love stealing things.

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.