There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.

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

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era of burlesque, and that form ran his visual aesthetic, the pacing and rhythm of what he did.

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.