Charles de Lint
Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.
Legend and myth are what we use to describe what we don't comprehend. They are out attempts to make the impossible, possible — at least insofar as our spirits interact with the spirit of the world, or if that is too animistic for you, then let's use Jung's terminology and call it our racial subconscious. No matter the semantics, they are of a kind and it is legend and myth that binds us all together. ... Through them, through their retellings, and through those version that are called religion while they are current, we are taught Truth and we attempt to understand Mystery.
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.