All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.