Seems the seance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off on live TV last year attracted only twenty. Fair enough, I suppose.

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

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.

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

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

Whereas non-scientific (and potentially dangerous) thinking starts with a premise and then looks for things that support it, scientific thinking constantly tries to disprove itself. That alone makes all the difference in the world.