I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

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

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

If there is no sunshine today, I decide to be their sunlight.

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

Have you ever had a broken heart?

Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.