"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."

"It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets."

"I am not a spiritualist. I am a magician."

"If God in his greatness ever sent an angel on Earth in human form, it was my mother."

"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime."