Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going.

The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

Motorcycle maintenance gets frustrating. Angering. Infuriating. That's what makes it interesting.

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.

If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.

This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

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 all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.

The more you look, the more you see.

Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

The more you read, the more you calm down.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

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