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.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Quotes
God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCTo blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCI shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC