Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic. Charles Fort
Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic ... Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. Julius Nyerere
Junk is surrounded by magic and taboos, curses and amulets. William S. Burroughs
I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic. Octavia Butler
That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic. Terry Pratchett
As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to that intention. Ideas and opportunities seem to appear from nowhere, almost as though by magic. Tim Hurson