If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

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.

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

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

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

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

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