Joey Santiago Quotes

Treat them so that they think that they are like dogs. And if they ever believe that they are not like dogs, then you have lost control over them

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.