Charles de Lint Quotes

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

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

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!

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.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

I don't really believe in the supernatural, as far as the negativity.

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

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

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.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

Magic is the man. No one is in his class.

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer... he's one of the coaches that I admire most!

I can't explain witchcraft.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

The real name for 'science' is magic.