Houdini Quotes

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.

To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.