Not Even the Elephant Knows How It's Done

My dreams are full of magic.  Vanishes mostly.  A card will only disappear in your hand depending on your perspective.  Turn your hand the wrong way, and the audience will see it.  You have to know what the audience can see to know that they can't see.

There are seven kinds of magic, everything else is just combination and variation.  The metamorphosis is just a vanish and a reveal, no actual change occurs.  The secret is in how well someone else believes it.  Restoration tricks rely on duplication and misdirection.  Water can become wine if you know where the wine is hidden. 

There's a certain irony in getting out of a relationship with a liar and immediately finding someone who made a business of deception. I trust perhaps too easily, but that's the only way. 

A magician tells the audience it's all an illusion.  It's up to you to figure out how it's done, and that's the game.  There are rules, and the magician will explain the rules, but not the secrets.  And that's OK.