The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

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.

You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

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.