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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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