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

I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

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

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

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

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