Charles Royer

“It’s an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it’s done and the talk about how it’s done never seems to match how one does it.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes much sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration’s programs, “We’ll just try them…and if they don’t work…why then we’ll just try something else.”
― Robert M. Pirsig