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

There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

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 was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.