I Am Not An Irretrievable Skeptic. I

I Knew, As Everyone Knows, That The Easiest Way To Attract A Crowd Is To Let It Be Known That At A Given Time And A Given Place Some One Is Going To Attempt Something That In The Event Of Failure Will Mean Sudden Death. That's What Attracts Us To The Man Who Paints The Flagstaff On The Tall Building, Or To The 'human Fly' Who Scales The Walls Of The Same Building.

I Am Not An Irretrievable Skeptic. I Am Not Hopelessly Prejudiced. I Am Perfectly Willing To Believe, And My Mind Is Wide Open; But I Have, As Yet, To Be Convinced. I Am Perfectly Willing, But The Evidence Must Be Sane And Conclusive.

Only One Man Ever Betrayed My Confidence, And That Only In A Minor Matter.

I Must Fling Myself Down And Writhe; I Must Strive With Every Piece Of Force I Possess; I Bruise And Batter Myself Against The Floor, The Walls; I Strain And Sob And Exhaust Myself, And Begin Again, And Exhaust Myself Again; But Do I Feel Pain? Never. How Can I Feel Pain? There Is No Place For It.

A Magician Is Only An Actor - An Actor Pretending To Be A Magician.