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.

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 house of magic has many rooms.

Tea- The sweetness of love, The fragrance of flowers, The comfort of a friend, The warmth of a hug-Such great delight gingerly poured from a single pink teapot.

Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.

I am nothing, and not even that.

I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

People think that I'm very serious.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.