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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

The moment we find the reason behind an emotion … the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand.

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.

If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.