The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.

There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

Of the obstacles we face while traversing life, the most challenging are often the ones we create from within and project onto our path.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

Love? It's good. But, as you go on living, it changes. After time passes, all gets forgotten.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.