Terence McKenna Quotes

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.

I've always loved magic.

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.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

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.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

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

I don't like magic.

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

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

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.