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.

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.

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

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.

Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I will be fully awake in today.

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown

To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.