The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.