I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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