When a young person signs up to me to be my student in magic, I immediately decline, knowing that he or she is intellectually and physically lazy.

Such persons believe that they can turn to magic for anything, believing that magic has immediate results.

The truth is, advertising and consumership brainwash people to substitute the fake for the real. Their magic word is "instant"--instant soup, instant coffee, instant fruit juice, you name it.

Magic, and I don't mean stage or street illusionism, never has immediate results, because all magic must follow natural law.

You have to read a lot, memorize a lot, and work hard to succeed with magic. You can't do that if you're intellectually and physically lazy.