One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.