458 Quotes by Penn Jillette

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

I'm an amazing mama's boy.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.