There’s an art to finding the truth in fiction, and that’s the actor’s ultimate quest.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

So. How was your week?

A writer’s job is to ask questions, not provide answers

The greatest novels are those that leave us with more questions than answers

I’m often asked, ‘Why didn’t Benjamin Franklin ever become president?’ My short, easy answer is: He died.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must approve more of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

If you can put the question, ‘Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?’ then you are responsible.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer

Questions outlive the answers.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

Golf isn’t a sport, it’s a game. I’m not saying it’s not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it’s not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

OK, you did two things wrong. First, you asked a question, and second, you asked another question.

You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’

If you love with violence and you hate with violence, there’s nothing that can be questioned. People say, ‘Oh, you’d better work through your resentments.’ Yeah, no. I’m gonna hang on to them, and they’re gonna fuel my attack. And they’re going to fuel the battle cry of my deadly and dangerous and secret and silent soldiers. Because they’re all around you. Sorry, you thought you were just messing with one dude. Winning.

I’m on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does not need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Many hours are spent with men. How many with your Maker?

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

The decisive question for man is—is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life

A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you

And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement

Could you be loved and be loved?

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.