So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

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

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

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.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.