People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

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

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

Today things are better than yesterday.

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.