In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death..

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can..

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end..

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear..

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future..

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time..

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession..

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect..

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the s….

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future..

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or thei….

Myth is, after all, the neverending story..

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appea….

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus fro….

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever..

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspect….

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time..

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning..

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life..

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it..

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich ….