Robert M. Pirsig

"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."

"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."

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

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

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

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