There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.