It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

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

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.