Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

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

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.