Charles Simic Quotes

Magic is at the core of myths.

I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.

I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.

Tons of folktales have to do with hares and witches. Basically, witches all over Europe turn into hares and are able to do malevolent things in the form of a hare. It goes back to the great god Pan. Pan is, if we're going to do archetypal projections, related to the Christian Satan, but as a child, Pan was wrapped in a hare's hide.

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil - it's really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries' folklore.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.