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

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.

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.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.

I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet

I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

But isn't there something wrong when I'm the only guy in the country that got fired for 9/11?

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.