One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Maybe that's what love is—sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

I have to earn re-election. Thats the way I see it.