As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to peo… - Charles de Lint

Creeps don’t need reasons for what they do; that’s why they’re creeps.

The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

I find that a lot of people have this thing about making crap romantic, the way they like to blur outlaws and heroes, the good with the bad.