Dan Fogler Quotes

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.

Magic is my paint.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I really don't believe in magic.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

The Wizard of Ooze

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

It is not so long ago, as years are reckoned, that a scientist in a physical or chemical laboratory was popularly regarded as a magician engaged in unlawful pursuits, or as in impious converse with evil spirits, about whom all sorts of detrimental stories were circulated and believed.