I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

I'm comfortable and confident about the future.

I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.

That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

Create Your Own Miracles, don't wait for Miracles to happen.

Remember no matter how many candles you blow out this year there's one gal who will always think of you as young strong and handsome - your mother.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.

Love happens when people forgive.

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.