Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I''m going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

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

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.