I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Let thy possession be the prosperity of the soul.

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.