I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

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

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

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.

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.

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