I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.