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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.