Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

Magicians guard an empty safe.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink

Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

I can keep my head together in a crisis.

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.