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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.