No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it.

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

You're my life now and I will do anything to protect you.