To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was... - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."

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

"We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly."

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."