I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an audience filled with people who you'd think would hate each other, people from every religious category, all at the same show at the same time. And it's an amazing phenomenon to watch this shared sense of wonder, where these people who really don't like each other - for good and bad reasons, reasons that make sense and that don't make sense - are in the same room, experiencing this unification.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

I'm a magician, not a singer.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.