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

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

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.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

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.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.