“Do not be a magician - be magic!”
“Magic is magic except to the magician.”
“Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”
“I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.”
“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.”
“Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.”