A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.