All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.

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'.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

I don’t want to be special. I don’t want to look special. I’m happy with just ‘me’

People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.