Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.
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My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
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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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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.
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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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I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
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I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.
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I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
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Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
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The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
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When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.
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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
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Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.