Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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

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.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.