Occupation: Illusionist Birth: March 5, 1955
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 b….
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows..
The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook..
I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there..
I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life..
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision..
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "...th….
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan ….
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful….
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did R….
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience..
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….
Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups..
As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead..
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody..
You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things..
It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more..
Make deals with people, not paper..
Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment..
Every poker player is smarter than me..
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me..