Whereas 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
Im a hardcore libertarian – I want everything legal – but I also believe that you have the right to free association. – Penn Jillette
But its much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But its more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen. – Penn Jillette
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen