For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn’t get his ideas from other people all around him. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: ‘No, I didn’t screw up.’ Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They’re always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
To live for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
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. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
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. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness… If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don’t talk about it, no one knows it is there. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
