The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

I'm tired of fighting...

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.