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

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 certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.

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

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 know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.