Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The most important thing is presentation.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

What a tribute this is to art

In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.