In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to….

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

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….

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

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees..

Whereas non-scientific (and potentially dangerous) thinking starts with a premise and then looks for things that support it, scientific thinking cons….

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….

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 no….

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. Compa….

Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled exis….

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control ….

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

If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all th….

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

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems.

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

When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite ….

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 ….

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and p….

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.

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