I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid

He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

Money isn't everything. I've got money and I've got everything, and they're not the same.

The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.