For a lot of people it's boring. It's a guy sitting in a box.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

I've had so many people in recent years talk to me about a need to foster something like this in the community for adults. There are a lot for things for kids ... (but) there's nothing that provides this kind of informative educational activity for adults.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.