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。
Gunpowder is not just a tool of destruction, it can also be a medium for creation. 火药不仅是破坏的工具，它也能成为创造的媒介。
一个好的悬疑故事就像一个好的笑话——关键在于时机。
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
Evil is whatever distracts.