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.

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.

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.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

If you’re tired of style, you are tired of life.

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.