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.

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.

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

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

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.

Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.