I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, ‘Oh yeah.’ Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What’s the motive? Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
What I am is a heretic who’s recanted and, thereby, in everyone’s eyes, saved his soul. Everyone’s eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote