My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.