In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

This I believe: I believe there is no God.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.