The house of magic has many rooms.

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.

Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.

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.

One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.

Never give a conscious meaning to your unconscious acts!

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)

I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Coffee is like a bra. 3 cups is one too many.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

Beauty is its own excuse.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.