The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.