Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said:
In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums—
where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked.