Robert m. pirsig

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.