Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation , followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.