Daniel Elkind is a writer and translator living in San Francisco.

Daniel Elkind

Her Dark Materials: A Conversation with Vanessa Place

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Daniel Elkind is a writer and translator living in San Francisco.