Penn Jillette Quotes
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I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy - you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do
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I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.
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You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody.
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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
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Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.
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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.
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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.
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A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
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The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
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If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
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Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
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I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
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I have nothing good to say about Donald Trump as president.
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I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.
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Trump, who never showed the slightest glimpse of humility.
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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
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Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.
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Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.
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You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.
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'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.