Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.

Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.

The house of magic has many rooms.

The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.

Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?

I walk through the old yellow sunlightto get to my kitchen tablethe poem about melying there with the booksin which I am listedamong the dead and future Dylans

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.