“This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”

“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.”

“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ”

“In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.”

“The first question we usually ask new parents is: “Is it a boy or a girl?”.There is a great answer to that one going around: “We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet.” Personally, I think no question containing “either/or” deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.”

“It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.”