Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

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.