You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

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.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing?" I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.