When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel it's a bit pompous to state it that way, but it does distinguish me from other writers. When it was first on the web, people began to use it in an ironical and satirical way. Now, however, people tend to use it straight.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as I used to. Instead of writing in free flight, I had to check on the stories all the time. So I have decided I better to do it while I am fresh!