The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.