For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.
I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.
I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?
The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.
The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.
The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.
I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'
The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.
