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.

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 inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.