I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

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

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

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

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

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