All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.