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

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half.