To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

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

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

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.

I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.

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

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets