Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

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.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.