I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

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

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

I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

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.

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