"There was magic in a forest, on a mountaintop or seashore; in the heart of a desert and, yes, even on a city street. There was beauty in humankind and the creatures with which they shared this world; and there was mystery, too."
- Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
- Simone Weil

"There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true,
all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other."
- P.L. Travers, author/creator of Mary Poppins

"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
Ð Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night"

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact."
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them."
- Charles de Lint, Into the Green

"Begin at the beginning ... then go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"A blank page or canvas ... so many possibilities!"
- spoken by Georges Seurat in the Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
- John Steinbeck

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
- Edwin Land

"Curiouser and curiouser!"
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland