Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

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

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

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

I am not too technical in my acting, and I feel when I get too technical it becomes unbelievable.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.

Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.