A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

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

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

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

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

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

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

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

If there's a best, I want to fight them.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.

I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.