Tom Robbins Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

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

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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

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

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

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.

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 loved magic.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

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 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.

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.

That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.