Jason Ralph Quotes

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

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.

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.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

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.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

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

Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.

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.

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

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

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

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 should get under people's skins.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

Bewitched is half of everything.

My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.