Quotes from Penn Jillette

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

Technology adds nothing to art.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.