[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.