01UndatedMy whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
02UndatedWhen I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
03UndatedComputers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
04UndatedMy love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
05UndatedWhereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
06UndatedI think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
07UndatedIt's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
09UndatedDirect confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
11UndatedI don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
12UndatedCounterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
13UndatedI will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
14UndatedI'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 / quote ↗
16UndatedFor the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
17UndatedMy body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
18UndatedI'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
19UndatedMy mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
20UndatedWe need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
22UndatedMy 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.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
23UndatedTo drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
24UndatedI've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.Penn Jillette / quote ↗
