For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.