But Vegas is really my first home.

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 like to let ideas simmer in my brain until they're well done.

I just want to serve Colombia.

At least when right-wingers rant there's a point.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?