Charles de Lint Quotes

I was in a phase when I was obsessed - I still am - with fortunetellers and psychics.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

Divining the future is a lot easier and cheaper than documenting the present.

The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.

I'm not an intensely mystical person. I don't do numerology. I'm a Cancer, but that's as far as I go.

I can do Tarot cards and all that.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

In late 1999, I was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks with my late producing partner Sharyn Lane after a day of editing 'Sordid Lives.' We passed the Psychic Book Store and decided to go in and get a reading. We weren't believers, but what the hell? We needed a sign.