A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.