As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

You measure success by the humility it takes to see the truth

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?