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

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say 'Shut up.'

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

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

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.