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

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

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

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. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

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