458 Quotes by Penn Jillette

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

We don't have a master plan. Madonna has a master plan. I think 50 Cent has a master plan ... We don't.

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

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

You have networks for people who bass fish, and another for people who trout fish.

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

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.