This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say 'Shut up.'

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

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.