The essential vocation of interpretive anthropology is not to answer our deepest questions, but to make available to us answers that others, guarding other sheep in other valleys, have given, and thus to include them in the consultable record of what man has said.
解释人类学的根本使命不是回答我们最深刻的问题，而是让我们能够接触到其他人在其他山谷中守护其他羊群时给出的答案，从而将这些答案纳入人类言论的可供查阅的记录中。
在这个世界上，幸福总是不期而遇的。倘如你把幸福当作目标来追求，那将是一场白费心机的追逐，永远不会成功的。而当你在追求别的目标时，则很有可能抓住连做梦也没有想到的幸福。
"A book is a bridge between souls, connecting the reader and the writer across time and space."
Consciousness is the theater where survival strategies are played out.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
