The Most Important Thing Is Presentation.

You Can Feel Better About Yourself In A Very Short Period Of Time Depending On The Kind Of Magic That You Are Doing.

All My Tv Shows Are Done Live In Front Of Audiences, And All The Material I Take On The Road And Travel With Them Test Them For Hundreds And Hundreds Of Shows Before I Shoot Them For Tv.

Magic Is The Only Profession Where It's Easy To Lie About Your Talent. If You Do A Trick And You Can Learn It Very Quickly, You Can Fool Somebody Into Thinking You're A Great Magician.

There Was A Guy Named Ed Mishell. He Was This Grandfatherly Guy Who Did All The Illustrations For The Catalogs And Reviewed Magic Effects For The Magic Magazines, So All Of The Magic Dealers Would Send Him Magic Effects For Free-it Was A Great Deal. His Basement Was Full Of This Stuff. He Took Me Under His Wing, And He Would Sneak Me Into The Society Of American Magicians Meetings In New York. It's The World's Oldest Magic Organization.

It Is The Unspoken Ethic Of All Magicians To Not Reveal The Secrets.