Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

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'.

Awe! Leaving so soon?” Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. “I was just about to pull out the gun for you to play single-player Russian Roulette.

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

Sometimes, I have to look twice at you just to see if you’re actually real. That much beauty is dangerous.

The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward they seem arrogant

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.