For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.
A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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.
Technology adds nothing to art.
Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.
I'm very happy being big and effeminate.
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
