I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Culture is public, because meaning is

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.