Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
I see what those people are doing with computers and it's just the new way of doing things and I don't look down on them for it, it's kind of funny that there are a lot of people - and I don't even care, this isn't me being like "well I do this" - but there are definitely people who are like: "Yeah I played all that. "
I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.