Diane Duane Quotes

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Magic is my paint.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Cooking can cure almost anything.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

The Wizard of Ooze

I'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

In one way, I want to heal people.

There is magic on earth.

Wizarding is technical to me. When you get something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts, that feeling is magic to me. That's a kind of alchemy.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Magic is the science of the jungle.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

The ordinary can be like medicine.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.