My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

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.

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.