I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.
The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.
People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians. ' I only ever considered it a standalone.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
Hearing is believing. . . a magician with the piano.
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.
But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.
The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.
