I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology
Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.
I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry. . . to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart. . . Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.