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.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code