458 Quotes by Penn Jillette

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world - and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.