Later, when I was at Caesar's Palace, and [Joe and Gil Cates] were trying to get me to have opening acts for the show, they gave me a list of people, and Rosie O'Donnell was one of them. I said, "I don't really need any opening acts. I have funny stuff in the show, and I do a lot of comedy and stuff."

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

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

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

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

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.