Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

But, though French, she was also very brave.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.