Charles de Lint Quotes
-
The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.
-
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
-
What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.
-
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
-
When you’re invisible, no one can see that you’re different.
-
Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.
-
Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
-
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.