Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. - Charles de Lint. View more images...

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. - Charles de Lint. View more images...

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? - Charles de Lint. View more images...

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. - Charles de Lint. View more images...