I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?

That's us, " he said. "Those five nuts right there.""Which one is me?" I asked."The little deformed one, " Zoe suggested."Oh, shut up.

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings, ' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.