Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

Magicians guard an empty safe.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink

Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?

Impossible to see, the future is.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

The customer is the final inspector.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.