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.

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

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

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.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

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

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.