I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

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

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.