I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.
Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.
Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.
You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.
Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.