Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

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

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

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

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.