Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

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

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.

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

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.

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