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

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

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.