“A personal agenda is a fool's agenda.”

“We are an oasis in the desert, beautiful but doomed!”

“When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.”

“So, this is what it feels like when Heaven leaves you.”

“...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...”

“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.”

“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”