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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a lie in order to placate you, but isn’t the truth supposed to set me free? I choose truth over lies any day of the week.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.

People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.

People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were.

I'm just like very honest.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.

Live well, Laugh often, Love much.

There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.

It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different type of celebrity.

... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.