It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

If people know how it’s done, all the magic goes.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.

The magic in these Masonic rituals is very, very old. And way back in those days, it worked. As time went on, and it started being used for spectacle, to consolidate what were only secular appearances of power, it began to lose its zip. But the words, moves, and machinery have been more or less faithfully carried down over the millennia, through the grim rationalizing of the World, and so the magic is still there, though latent, needing only to touch the right sensitive head to reassert itself.

Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Wizardry is real, you just have to learn the incantations.

Something I try to keep in mind while writing:

What’s obvious to you can be magic to others.

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

But I really, since I exist, at all, I believe that it's possible for people...I've lived through impossible situations. So I believe in it. I just believe, and that's the magic...That's the whole thing, you talk about magic that there's to believe in, and it is there. But most people don't really believe in it. And I refuse, like, since I'm still alive and done the things I've done and seen things and understood things as far as I have, and I am alive, I mean physically intact. When I shouldn't be, according to medical reports and so forth. I mean I should be, not here. That's all there is to it. So the magic's working and it's a rare situation.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.