I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

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

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

Please thaw my permafrost heart.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.