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 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.

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'.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

The vision is for the right time, although it takes time, wait for it, it will come true.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

To me what really matters is that it shouldn't matter to you what day of the week it is.

Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!