"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic"

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again"

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic"

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind"

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem"