“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”
“The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.”
“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”
“Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other.”
“History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”