Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

What the eyes see, the heart must believe.

A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

Don't make unimportant things important

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

A large movement covers a small movement

If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?

Be natural and use your head.

Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

I'm strictly a 'look at the menu but don't order anything' guy when it comes to attractive women who aren't my wife.

I take it we're friends now, " Henry said. "We must be, " Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so.""It should be so, " Blue agreed.

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.