I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

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 can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.

I'm not a vegetarian.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.