I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

Magic is my paint.

Magic really helped me.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Never stop listening to your audience.

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

When youre a guy and meet a girl the first time you do whatever it takes.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

The most important thing is presentation.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

I hate wasting people's time.

Religions get lost as people do.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.