You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

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'.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.