Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

...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

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

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

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