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.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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.

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

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.