I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

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 get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.