Quotes from Penn Jillette

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.

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

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.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

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

In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

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

I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.

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

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

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