“What if there were no hypothetical questions?”

“The most interesting question of history is always, What were these people thinking?”

“The best teachers still taught in a Socratic style, asking questions, responding to the answers with still another question. And in all of our courses, we were taught that what mattered most was asking the right question — having posed the question well, answering the question was often a relatively easy matter.”

“The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.”

“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”

“In the madrassa, questions were not welcome; they were considered impertinent.”

“The question is—what is the question?”

“That's been a question, one of the big questions in my life. 'What is a human?' What are the elements that make a human?' It's a search for… how many elements do you get before you say, "Yes, it's human," where before you were saying it's not human.”

“What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!”