Jim Butcher Quotes

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

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

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

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.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.

The wisest have the most authority.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

I’ve never formally been number 1 in the Party, but everybody keeps hanging around me, showing me deference. I have to give the nod on every important decision. I carry too much weight and that is not good for the Party or the state.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position

I found early on that having a position of power really doesn't bring the fulfillment that many people think it does.

Who wouldn't want to be wizard, at least for a day, as long as you didn't have the dilemmas and the situations that Merlin was thrown into. I'd be happy if you could actually use the powers to have a bit of fun and do something good for the world and maybe for yourself, whereas Merlin's kind of limited in that he has to look after Arthur.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.