I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

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 just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

Ignorance never protected anyone for long.

Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

One can live without having survived

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.