To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Appearances often are deceiving.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.