Thou shalt not take anything on faith

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

I'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.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.