Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

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.

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

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.