We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It was brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.

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

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

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

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