If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

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

You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.

There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time.

You can’t find God through astronomy

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.