The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

This I believe: I believe there is no God.

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say 'Shut up.'

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.