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

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.