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If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself. — Penn Jillette

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life
one of the most rewarding feelings
is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand." — Penn Jillette

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. — Penn Jillette

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol. — Penn Jillette

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats. — Penn Jillette

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke. — Penn Jillette

Even one person's misunderstanding [of a blue joke] may not be worth the next guy's laugh. — Penn Jillette

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means. — Penn Jillette

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

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him. — Penn Jillette

Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating. — Penn Jillette

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

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life. — Penn Jillette

Astrology is a cousin of racism. — Penn Jillette

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. — Penn Jillette

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

I'm very happy being big and effeminate. — Penn Jillette

Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex. — Penn Jillette

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. — Penn Jillette

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing. — Penn Jillette

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all. — Penn Jillette

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways — Penn Jillette

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

You should think about the world and feel about your heart. — Penn Jillette

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty. — Penn Jillette

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart. — Penn Jillette

Make deals with people, not paper. — Penn Jillette

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights. — Penn Jillette

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing. — Penn Jillette

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

Thou shalt not take anything on faith — Penn Jillette

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports. — Penn Jillette

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

I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there. — Penn Jillette

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things. — Penn Jillette

I don't know what's best for other people. — Penn Jillette

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

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. — Penn Jillette

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away. — Penn Jillette

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. — Penn Jillette

How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do. — Penn Jillette

'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog. — Penn Jillette

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

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. — Penn Jillette

This I believe: I believe there is no God. — Penn Jillette

Freedom means the right to be stupid. — Penn Jillette

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy. — Penn Jillette

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love. — Penn Jillette

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know". — Penn Jillette

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

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment. — Penn Jillette

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books. — Penn Jillette

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality. — Penn Jillette

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical. — Penn Jillette

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette. — Ray Comfort

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business. — Penn Jillette

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda. — Penn Jillette

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice. — Penn Jillette

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means. — Penn Jillette

Read everything and be kind. — Penn Jillette

Everyday is an atheist holiday. — Penn Jillette

There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks. — Penn Jillette

As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead. — Penn Jillette

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

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

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen. — Penn Jillette

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance. — Penn Jillette

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things. — Penn Jillette

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. — Penn Jillette

Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine. — Penn Jillette

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions. — Penn Jillette

The fact is that violence gives you a rush. — Penn Jillette

We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be. — Penn Jillette

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things. — Penn Jillette

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins. — Penn Jillette

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? — Penn Jillette

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business. — Penn Jillette

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith. — Penn Jillette

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

We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't! — Penn Jillette

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane! — Penn Jillette

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. — Penn Jillette

I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot. — Penn Jillette

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world. — Penn Jillette

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me. — Penn Jillette

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician. — Penn Jillette

Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful. — Penn Jillette

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about. — Penn Jillette

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

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see. — Penn Jillette

If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke. — Penn Jillette

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

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along. — Penn Jillette

Every poker player is smarter than me. — Penn Jillette

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

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems. — Penn Jillette

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government. — Penn Jillette

We celebrities are desperate pigs. — Penn Jillette

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage. — Penn Jillette

Luck is statistics taken personally. — Penn Jillette