“The smart leader never asks the question he doesn't want to hear the answer!”

“But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.”

“He had nowhere to look for answers, and he was tired of asking questions.”

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

“We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.”

“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”

“It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.”

“The shortness of the woman’s replies indicated that Emily was asking questions Miss Jesczenka didn’t particularly want to answer, but those were usually the questions that most needed to be asked.”

“The oracle-glass was maddeningly literal, capable of answering only the question one asked, rather than that which one wanted answered.”