...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

I would like a bit of me - that’s how I put my back out!

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.