I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

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

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

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

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.