Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

A committed citizens can move a country.

Is that-am I looking at her beaver?"Mid-swig, I choke on the mouthful of beer, sputtering and coughing. After I recover, I ask jokingly, "'Beaver'? Are you Canadian or something?

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...

We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It's your move.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT

Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.