“He is many things – dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy – but he comes from an age when a man’s word was indeed precious.”

I’m not a magician. I’am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

We only ever regret the things we have not done.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this – He tapped his chest, over his heart. ‘This is always true.

The truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

He who retreats lives longer.

What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.