The better you are, the closer they watch.

Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.

The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

The similarities among different kinds of audiences far outweigh the differences.

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the leaves, you... how did he say it? Oh yes. That you wash the darkness from the world.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.