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Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that.