Quotes from Penn Jillette

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

World War II proves there's no God.

This I believe: I believe there is no God.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

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.'

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.