It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”
“When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.”