I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

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.

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.

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

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.