For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

You have only 3 days-yesterday is won or lost-today is just with you.Tomorrow you have not.Act now, unlock your potentials

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.