Magic Is The Sole Science

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

The Great Trouble With Magicians Is The Fact That They Believe When They Have Bought A Certain Trick Or Piece Of Apparatus, And Know The Method Of Procedure, That They Are Full-fledged Mystifiers.

No Performer Should Attempt To Bite Off Red-hot Iron Unless He Has A Good Set Of Teeth.

But It Must Not Be Thought That I Say This Out Of Personal Experience: For In The Many Years That I Have Been Before The Public My Secret Methods Have Been Steadily Shielded By The Strict Integrity Of My Assistants, Most Of Whom Have Been With Me For Years.

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.