Egypt was the mother of magicians.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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.

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