"When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian"

"I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point"

"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"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"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"

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled"

"The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ"

"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"