No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

What you see is what you get.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

The secret of life is to have no fear.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania