The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.