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.

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

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.

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

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

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

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