“I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.” KnowsArtRememberAsksAnswersCrossesLawyerExaminationAvenues Author:James Lipton
“Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.” PeopleBookLeftAnswersClassHatredWingsBritishWitAcceptableBrutalWorking ClassExaminationOutrageLeft WingTimelyClass System Author:Dwight Garner
“I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.” ThinkingWritingBookSelfAsksProcessAnswersExaminationSelf-examination Author:John Edgar Wideman
“Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.” MenGivingMindAnswersViewsFoolBearsAbsolutesCarefulLackingConsistencyDistrustExamination Book:St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence