“The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
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“You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.”
"Song of Winnie"
Winnie (1988)
Context: My Poem is life, and not finished.
It shall never be finished.
My Poem is life, and can grow.
Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.
I give you what I have.
You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.
How many answers shall be found
in the developing world of my Poem?
I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem,
which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (pp. 69-70)
Keynote speech, Wharton Global Modular Course, May 25, 2015. http://www.inside-rge.com/Sukanto-Tanoto-Entrepreneur-Journey-1
2015
“You don’t learn unless you question.”
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.”
When questioned on Israel's future, in The New York Times (12 December 1974)
“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.”
My Dinner with Strummer (March 1999)
Variant: The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 26 (p. 424).