Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

If you want to be successful. You must pay the price in advance.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.