“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”

“If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.”

“This seems to me to be more a day for a searching of the human soul perhaps than for any kind of scientific celebration.”

“The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.”

“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”

“There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.”

“The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.”

“A fairy tale in terms of blood—a world in anamorphosis—a perversion of all rationality.… It’s unthinkable, senseless, like black magic and sorcery and thaumaturgy. It’s downright demented.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.”