People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

Make deals with people, not paper.

Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

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