Elizabeth Hand

"I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing … I studied what in…"

"You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the wo…"

"I worked at the Smithsonian for a number of years. I had a very low-level job. I didn't have much responsibility, but I did have a Smithsonian ID badge that gave me access to all of the museums on the…"

"Excerpt from Mortal Love at HaperCollins"

"Julian was into black magic. Well, okay—he never called it that. But something to do with the dark arts. “Magick” with a K, that Aleister Crowley bullshit. So fucking pretentious. Most of Crowley’s qu…"

"I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign forces of Dionysos."

"A lot of the revisionist thinking by feminist mythologisers — people who based their projections of ancient "matristic" cultures on work done by folks like Marija Gimbutas — is based on archaeological…"

"It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared."