"'Since you asked..,' with Galway Kinnell for the WGBH series, New Television Workshop"

"Paul Bowles, A Conversation with Bruce Duffie"

"With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself."

"Modern anthropology … opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary…"

"Predictive social science does not exist. Indeed, it seems to me that it cannot ever exist, since the behaviour to be predicted reacts to and is partly shaped by the words used by the predictors."