The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.

We are not certain we are never certain.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.

Never stop flying the airplane.

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.