"The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death."

"The greatest escape I ever made was when I escaped from a straitjacket underwater."

"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."

"Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything..."

"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."