Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

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'.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.