“the point is that there are always answers.”

“Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations.”

“And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.”

“The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.”

“The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.”

“Have you ever noticed,” said Dimble, “that the universe, and every bit of the universe is always hardening and narrowing and coming to a point?”His wife waited as those wait who know by long experience the mental processes of the person who is talking to them.“I mean this,” said Dimble in answer to the question she had not asked. “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family – anything you like – at a given point in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow room and contrasts weren’t quite so sharp; and that there’s going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder.”