I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesars, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

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.

...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

People are hungry for stories of faith. People are hungry for hope.

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.