“Magic is magic except to the magician.”
“Do not be a magician - be magic!”
“But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.”
“I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.”
“Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.”
“In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.”