458 Quotes by Penn Jillette

I’ve always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I’m still working on it.

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 bugnutty.

I’m always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they’re often not very stupid in hindsight.

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

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama’s birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You’re basically saying, ‘I can’t make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw in bacon.’

Desire for something impossible does not make it less impossible.

I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that’s very, very difficult.

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don’t believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you’re being censored.