"The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc"

"Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy"

"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"

"Feathers predate birds"

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace"

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

"London is a roost for every bird"

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away"

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"