“What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.”

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

“There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

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

“We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.”

“we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences”