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.

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.

In life you have friends and enemies, both can motivate you to be better.

We are the choice elected fewLet all the rest be damnedThere is room enough in hell for youWe won’t have heaven crammed!

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them.