The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
Penn JilletteI'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
Penn JilletteOnly Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.
Penn JilletteOne of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.
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