Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on." Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.