Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

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