Explore Quotes by Penn Jillette

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There’d be riots in the streets about the people we’re killing. And yet because it’s Obama, and he’s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, 'Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not?' But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.