It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The most important thing is presentation.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a page, two pages, a chapter, more.

Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Your voice can change the world.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring.

Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.