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

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

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

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

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

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

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.