I Don't Write Drafts. I Write From

A Scholar Can Hardly Be Better Employed Than In Destroying A Fear.

It May Be In The Cultural Particularities Of People — In Their Oddities — That Some Of The Most Instructive Revelations Of What It Is To Be Generically Human Are To Be Found.

A Religion Is A System Of Symbols Which Acts To Establish Powerful, Pervasive, And Long-lasting Moods In Men By Formulating Conceptions Of A General Order Of Existence And Clothing Those Conceptions With Such An Aura Of Factuality That The Moods And Motivations Seem Uniquely Realistic.

There Is An Indian Story -- At Least I Heard It As An Indian Story -- About An Englishman Who, Having Been Told That The World Rested On A Platform Which Rested On The Back Of An Elephant Which Rested In Turn On The Back Of A Turtle, Asked (perhaps He Was An Ethnographer; It Is The Way They Behave), What Did The Turtle Rest On? Another Turtle. And That Turtle? 'ah, Sahib, After That It Is Turtles All The Way Down

I Think Of Myself As A Writer Who Happens To Be Doing His Writing As An Anthropologist