Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.