The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

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.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.