I Don't Write Drafts. I

The Point Of Literary Criticism In Anthropology Is Not To Replace Research, But To Find Out How It Is That We Are Persuasive.

I Don't Have The Notion That Everybody Has To Write In Some Single Academic Style

I Had A Hard Time Convincing Students That They Were Going To North Africa To Understand The North Africans, Not To Understand Themselves.

I Never Leave A Sentence Or A Paragraph Until I'm Satisfied With It

As A Religious Problem, The Problem Of Suffering Is, Paradoxically, Not How To Avoid Suffering But How To Suffer, How To Make Of Physical Pain, Personal Loss, Worldly Defeat, Or The Helpless Contemplation Of Others' Agony Something Bearable, Supportable- Something As We Say, Sufferable.