“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
“I don't have to answer. Until you know the question.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
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American writer 1952Related quotes
“If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 101.
Yogiisms
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
“Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?”
Source: Clockwork Prince
His reply to a shoe manufacturer who had asked why Miller's job should be subsidized when his was not, as recounted at a London press conference. The Guardian (25 January 1990)
"Diary of a Political Scientist," http://www.slate.com/id/2094743/entry/2095060/ Slate (February 5, 2004).
“Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.”
Variant: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Source: Gravity's Rainbow