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

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

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.

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.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.