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"We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too."
"Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life."
"Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed."
"The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover."
"Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question."
"I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't."
"Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review."
"The thing I loved, particularly, was the mystery of science and the idea that science doesn't know all the answers, but it is a process of finding out. It's not like science will give you the right answer and science knows everything. I love the mysteries of it."
"Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer."
"We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known."
"A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along."
"I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting."
"Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one."
"every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . ."
"Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers."
"[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions."
"These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens."
"If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford."
"Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing."
"It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive."
