When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

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.

I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.