It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

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

God is alive, real, and wants to heal you in every aspect of your life where you are hurting.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.