If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

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

Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!