If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
