“Now I don't want to lie to you, there were some Blacks in the neighborhood, but they asses was so uptight I figured if I asked them a question they'd want me to pay for the answer.”
“He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.”
“Thank you for giving me the courage to always ask the questions, even when I don't want the answers.”
“If you don't want my answer, don't ask me the question.”
“Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read?”
“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.”