Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
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In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.
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When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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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 don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.
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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
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I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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'Morality, Religion And Bullsh*T: An Interview With Penn Jillette' by Ryan Shaffer, at the American Humanist Association (December 2012)
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Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
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I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.
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It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. … God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.
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From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.