“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.”

“The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.”

“But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.”

“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.”

“You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.”

“Magic is magic except to the magician.”

“Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.”