...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say "But in real life that guy never turns up. He's never there. He's busy handing out advice in the next universe over. In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as cluele...
Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.
There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.
A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.
Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted to see them pick Proust or Thomas Mann or James Joyce. You might even feel sheepish about the fact that you reread...
Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.
