Book: Prestige

... it is easier to deceive the most enlightened spectators. Their education shield them from the simplicity of focus.

The main rule of magic is immutable: what is seen and what is done are two different things.

Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are significant and original, but because they are minor and trivial. Striking scenic effects often achieved as a result of these ridiculous tricks that the magician is just ashamed to admit it, how he does it.

Giving vent to grief, they will be healed from grief.

There is no revenge sweeter than to beat the enemy with his own weapons, to avoid at all costs to leave behind.

If two lives to merge into one, each of them will be halved.

The truth is better than another lie.

Neither then nor now, no one has invented a cure for boredom.

Hunger is a monster!

Energy and matter are just two manifestations of one and the same entity.

People often form a mosaic of memories from fragments of reality from their own experiences or from the stories of other, often wishful thinking.