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If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I would have been a geologist.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.