When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

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.

... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.

To decide to quit on yourself, is to be willing to settle for the pain that comes with every big regret.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

Food makes my mind sluggish.