...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....

Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before,push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm ofmagic.

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.