Never take "NO" for an answer.

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'.

My vibration is always in the sublime sunshine of life!

Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.

The habit of talking the talk has distracted many people from walking the walk.

Balls to ten minutes.

That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.