Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

—Arthur C. Clarke

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run—and often in the short one—the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

—Arthur C. Clarke

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

—Arthur C. Clarke

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved—if it can be achieved at all—within the next few hundred years.

—Arthur C. Clarke

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

—Black Elk

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

—Donna Lynn Hope

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

—Amy Lowell

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

—Ben Hecht