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。
The poor often have to make more complex financial decisions than the rich.
仅以产量来衡量水产养殖的成功，就像用木材产量来评判森林一样。
成功是一系列随时间积累的小胜利。
The awful shadow of some unseen Power floats, though unseen, among us.
We are not interested in the spectacular. We are interested in the specific.
文学不是一场道德选美比赛。
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.