Penn Jillette Quotes
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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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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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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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
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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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My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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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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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
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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 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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Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.
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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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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
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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.
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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
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I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.