I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.


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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point d...
PENN JILLETTE
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
PENN JILLETTE
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
WILLIAM PENN
Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN
If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to...
WILLIAM PENN
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unles...
WILLIAM PENN
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman w...
WILLIAM PENN
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him
WILLIAM PENN
When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.&...
PENN JILLETTE
Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
PENN JILLETTE
I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosp...
PENN JILLETTE
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
WILLIAM PENN
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
SEAN PENN
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memo...
PENN JILLETTE
I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
PENN JILLETTE
America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to...
PENN JILLETTE
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that every...
PENN JILLETTE
To delay justice, is injustice.
WILLIAM PENN
Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
PENN JILLETTE
As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.
WILLIAM PENN
If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . ...
WILLIAM PENN
Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell
WILLIAM PENN
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the exi...
PENN JILLETTE
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double...
PENN JILLETTE
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird ki...
PENN JILLETTE
I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week pr...
PENN JILLETTE
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same col...
PENN JILLETTE
I am a Justin Timberlake fan.
SEAN PENN