I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

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 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.

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.