When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds; they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.
My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form. . . Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
[Sherlock Holmes] becomes more human and more adept at fitting in with a lot of people, but he remains separate from the human race because he finds that a better place to observe that from. He stays on the mountain top because there, he can see clearly.
You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.