Charles de Lint Quotes

The real name for 'science' is magic.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Bewitched is half of everything.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

The Wizard of Ooze

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

You don't question magic.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

Magic should get under people's skins.

There is magic on earth.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

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

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

I would like to do a role that has something to do with mysticism or even a supernatural one.

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'm really proud to be part of it. I think it's great that the show came back. We have another generation to fall in love with magic and the 'Charmed' sisters.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

People ask me, 'Why angels? Why paranormal? Why teens?' In the beginning, I'm not sure I knew I was starting down any of those twisted paths - paths that now seem so familiar to me that they are downright comforting. In the beginning, I was just writing about love.