I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.

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'.

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Growth is betrayal.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.