“Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?”
“Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.”
“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.”
“I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.”
“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”
“One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know. ”