458 Quotes by Penn Jillette

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

In the '60s, you know, you had this -- you'd have, you know, James Brown on the same show with Alan King, and that was -- that made perfect sense, and it still makes perfect sense,

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

If there is room for Chris Bliss and there is, there's also room for Jason Garfield to make fun of him.