Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

I've spent half my life on planes.

People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

What don't kill me will just make me crazier

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.