Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

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

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

Making... an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology.

What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either.

You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.

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

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.