Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.