Circumventing Quotes

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

When the Department does respond to telegrams it is invariably to recommend evasion of issues that cannot be evaded.

I often work by avoidance.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.