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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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.

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….

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

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….

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….

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

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves..

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 ….

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

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

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